-stowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From stōw (“place”), from Proto-Germanic *stōwō (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂w- (“to set, place”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). Akin to Old Norse -stó (“place of”), Old Frisian stō (“place”), Gothic ������������ (stōjan, “to judge, place”). Confer the similar usage in forming toponyms in the cognate Indo-Iranian suffix -stan. See also stow.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈstoːw/

接尾辞

-stōw f

1. 接尾辞 found in many placenames denoting "place" or "place of"

   Bryċġstōw "Bristol; literally: the place by the bridge"

2. place, area; provenance of, office of, jurisdiction of

   folcstōw "a place in the country"

   friþstōw "a place of peace, sanctuary, refuge, asylum"

   fulwihtstōw "a baptistry, place where one is baptized"

   moldstōw "a site; sepulcre"

   mōtstōw "a forum"

   nēahstōw "neighborhood; vicinity"

   mynsterstōw "town, township"

語形変化

語源 1

From Middle English stowe, from 古期英語 stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōwu, from Proto-Germanic *stōwō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”). See also -stow.

名詞

stow (複数形 stows)

1. (rare) A place, stead.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stow.

派生語

• moot-stow

語源 2

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from 古期英語 stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōwōną, *stōwijaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).

動詞

stow (三人称単数 現在形 stows, 現在分詞 stowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 stowed) (transitive)

1. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
2. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
   • 1922, James A. Cooper, Sheila of Big Wreck Cove:

     Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.

3. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
4. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3:

     Ar. […] The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep : […]

5. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
   • Bet the Coaley's Daughter (traditional song)

     But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.

派生語

• bestow
• misstowed
• stowable
• stowage
• stow away
• stower
• stowing
• unstow

間投詞

stow

1. (obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66, 69–74:

     His seconde hawke wexyd gery […]
     on the rode loft
     She perkyd her to rest.
     The fauconer then was prest,
     Came runnynge with a dow,
     And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
     But she wold not bow.

アナグラム

• OTWs, SWOT, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, swot, tows, twos, wost, wots

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *stōwu, from Proto-Germanic *stōwō (“a place, location, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /stoːw/

名詞

stōw f

1. a place

   Ne sċoldest þū gān tō swā frēcenre stōwe.

   You shouldn't have gone to such a dangerous place.

2. a place on the body
3. a place that is built; house, collection of houses, habitation, dwelling
4. a place, position, or spot in a series
5. a room, stead
6. a place or passage in a book

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: stowe, stow
  • Scots: stow
  • English: stow