Pundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pund/
• 韻: -und

名詞

pund n

1. pound (weight or currency)
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

     Ðǣre sunnan ġēar is ꝥ hēo beyrne þone miċlan ċircul zōdiacum, ⁊ ġecume under ǣlċ þǣra twelf tācna. Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tācna. Ān þǣra tācna ys ġehāten ariēs, ꝥ is ramm; ōðer taurus, ꝥ is fearr; ðridda geminī, ꝥ synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, ꝥ is crabba; fīfta lēo; syxta virgō, ꝥ is mǣden; seofoða lībra, þæt is pund oððe wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, ꝥ is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittārius, ꝥ is sċytta; tēoða ys capricornus, ꝥ is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquārius, ꝥ is wætergyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġȳt; twelfte is piscēs, ꝥ synd fixas.

     A year of the sun is when she passes around the Zodiac circle and moves under each of the twelve signs. Each month runs under one of the signs. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: pund, punde, pounde, pound
  • English: pound
  • Geordie: pund
  • → Middle Irish: punt
    • Irish: punt
    • Manx: punt
  • Scots: pund, poond
• → Middle Cornish: puns
  • Cornish: peuns
• → Middle Welsh: punt
  • Welsh: punt

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pund, es; n.”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 779.