Godspellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Analysed as God +‎ spell, literally “God-message”, an alteration of earlier gōdspell (“good news”), from gōd (“good”) +‎ spell (“message, news”), a calque from Ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō or bonus nūntius, which was a then-current explanation of the meaning of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡodˌspell/, [ˈɡodˌspeɫ]

名詞

godspell n

1. gospel
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Đā ġelǣredan ne beðurfon þyssera bōca, forðan ðe him mæġ heora āgen lār genihtsumian. Iċ cweðe nū þæt iċ næfre heonon forð ne āwende godspel oððe godspeltrahtas of Lēdene on Englisċ.

     The learned have no need of these books, for their own learning will suffice. I say now that henceforth, I will never translate a gospel or a gospel-commentary from Latin into English.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell
  • English: gospel (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: gospel
• → Old Norse: guðspjall (calque)
  • Icelandic: guðspjall