Donaldとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Name of Scottish kings and an early saint, from Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall and reinforced by Medieval Latin Donvaldus ~ Donaldus, from Old Irish Domnall, from Proto-Celtic *Dubnowalos (“prince / chief of the world”). Doublet of Domhnall.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɒn.əld/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈdɑn.əld/
• 韻: -ɒnəld
• ハイフネーション: Don‧ald

固有名詞

Donald (countable and uncountable, plural Donalds)

1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
   • 1816, Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Samuel H. Parker, published 1836, page 232:

     "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -

   • 1980, Laura Furman, The Glass House, a Novella and Stories, Viking Press, published 1980, →ISBN, page 76:

     My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the first time we met.

   • 1991, Frank Chin, Donald Duk, Coffee House Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1:

     Donald Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like Donald Duk," Donald Duk says to himself.

   • 2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN‎:

     The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was “truly great.” Mike Pence called her “the First Lady of the Conservative Movement.” Pence wasn’t exaggerating.

2. A surname.
3. A place name:
   1. An unincorporated community in Long County, Georgia, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in the town of Pershing, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.
   3. A community regarded as a ghost town west of Golden, British Columbia, Canada.
   4. A town in the Shire of Buloke, western Victoria, Australia.

使用する際の注意点

• Popular in all English-speaking countries in the first half of the 20th century.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• ⇒ Translingual: donaldtrumpi

名詞

Donald (plural Donalds)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Abbreviation of Donald Trump (“a dump, an act of defecation”).
   • 2018, Mick Herron, London Rules, Baskerville 2022, p. 119:

     ‘But I'm overdue for a Donald. You lot squabble amongst yourselves.’ He stole Catherine's newspaper on the way out.

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