Delfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 delf, delve, dælf (“a quarry, clay pit, hole; an artificial watercourse, a canal, a ditch, a trench; a grave; a pitfall”), from 古期英語 delf, ġedelf (“delving, digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug, delf, ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”). More at delve.

発音

• 韻: -ɛlf

名詞

delf (plural delfs or delves)

1. (archaic, UK, dialectal) A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
2. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.

   two delves gules

3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”).
   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park:

     Five nothings in five plates of delf

   • 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part I, page 26:

     Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

   • 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 832‎, retrieved 18 January 2012:

     That's all—do what we do, but noblier done— / Use plate, whereas we eat our meals off delf, / (To use a figure).

   • 1941, Sarah Atherton, Mark's Own, Bobbs-Merrill:

     Men can't munch from meatless pots and doughless delf.

派生語

• stonedelf

参照

• “delf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• FDLE, fled

発音

• IPA: /delf/, [deɫf]
• 韻: -elf

名詞

delf n (nominative plural delf)

1. digging, excavation
2. that which is dug: trench, quarry, canal

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: delf, delfe, delve, dælf
  • English: delf, delve
  • Scots: delf, delph

語源

From 古期英語 delf, from delfan (中期英語 delven).

発音

• IPA: /dɛlf/, /dɛlv/

名詞

delf (plural delves)

1. A quarry (pit for digging stone or clay).
2. A man-made channel or stream; a water-filled ditch.
3. A hole or ditch; a delf.

派生した語

• English: delf, delve
• Scots: delf, delph

参照

• “delf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2018.