Laundeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lande, launde, from Late Latin *landa, from Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of lond; first attested in c. 1330.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlau̯nd(ə)/

名詞

launde (plural laundes)

1. A glade or clearing; a grassy plain surrounded by woodland.
   • 1343?–1400 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Assemble of Foules”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio cclxxv, recto:

     And in a launde, vpon an hyl of floures
     was sette this noble goddesse Nature

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2. A plain; flat, uncultivated, and unforested land.

派生した語

• English: lawn; laund

参照

• “laund(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.