HALSEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English hals, from 古期英語 heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).

Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

別の表記

• hawse (Scotland)

名詞

halse (複数形 halses)

1. (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

   Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

派生語

• halseman

語源 2

From Middle English halsen, halchen, from 古期英語 *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”).

別の表記

• haulse
• halsh (dialectal)
• hawse, hose (Scotland)

動詞

halse (三人称単数 現在形 halses, 現在分詞 halsing, 過去形および過去分詞形 halsed)

1. (dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes

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