læceの英語

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *lākī, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz. Cognate with Old Frisian lētza, Old Saxon lāki, Old High German lāhhi, Old Norse *lækir, Gothic ������������ (lēkeis).

名詞

lǣċe m

1. doctor (physician)
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Hine man sċeal lǣdan tō þām lǣċe.

     He should be taken to the doctor.

2. (in compounds) medical

語形変化

等位語

• lācnestre

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: leche
  • English: leech (古風な用法)

語源 2

Probably assimilated to Etymology 1 above, by popular etymology, though its use probably predated the term for a doctor.

Of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from a Germanic base meaning "to pluck, tear" (compare Old High German liochan (“to tear”)), evolving into "suck," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to break, tear”), see also Ancient Greek λευγαλέος (leugaléos), λυγρός (lugrós), Sanskrit रुजति (rujati, “to break open, shatter, injure, cause pain”), Latvian lauzt (“to break, fracture”).^[1]

Cognate with Middle Dutch lake, leke (modern Dutch laak).

名詞

lǣċe m

1. leech

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: leche
  • English: leech

参照

• John R. Clark Hall (1960), “lǣce”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 208

接頭辞

lǣċe-

1. of or relating to physicians or the medical field, medical

   lǣċehūs "hospital, hostelry"

   lǣċefeoh "doctor's fee"

   lǣċebōc "prescription book"

   lǣċeīren "surgeon's knife, scalpel"

2. of or relating to medicine, medicinal

   lǣċedōm "field of medicine"

   lǣċecyst "medicine chest"

   lǣċewyrt "medicinal herb, drug, treatment"