Welkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 welken, probably from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch welken (Dutch welken) and Middle Low German welken. Cognate with German welken. Ultimately, from Proto-West Germanic *wilkijan (“to become soft”), from Proto-Germanic *welkaz (“soft, withered”), according to Kluge, related to *wulkną (“cloud”).

Compare also 古期英語 wealwian (“to fade, wither”), 古期英語 wlacu (“tepid, lukewarm”).

動詞

welk (third-person singular simple present welks, present participle welking, simple past and past participle welked)

1. (obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
2. (obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 9:

     As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weſt, [...]

   • 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 257:

     [T]he Church that before by inſenſible degrees welk'd and impair'd, now with large ſteps went down hill decaying; [...]

3. (dialectal) to soak, steep.
4. (dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
5. To contract; to shorten.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:

     But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.

6. (transitive) To form into wrinkles or ridges.

派生語

語源 2

名詞

welk (plural welks)

1. Alternative form of whelk.

アナグラム

• kewl, lewk

別の表記

• welke, whelke, wilke, woelk, wylk, wylke

発音

• IPA: /wɛlk/, /wilk/

名詞

welk (plural welkes)

1. whelk (sea snail)
2. (rare) whelk shell

派生した語

• English: whelk, welk, whilk, wilk
• Scots: wulk, wilk, welk
• → Old French: welke

参照

• “welk(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

welk

1. alternative form of welken (“to dry out”)