Yepsenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• eapns (Yorkshire), espin (Derbyshire), ipson (Somerset), yaspen (Northern England), yeepsen (Essex), yepsintle (Lancashire), yespen (Essex), yespfull (Staffordshire), yestmus (Lancashire)

語源

From Middle English yespon, yepson, ȝespon, ȝespen, ȝispon (“a measure of volume equivalent to that contained in a person’s hands cupped together”), probably from 古期英語 *ġēapsponn, *ġēapspann, from 古期英語 *ġēap (“bent, curved”) + spann (“measure of the palm または hand”), equivalent to gap +‎ span. Compare West Frisian gasp (“buckle, clasp”), Dutch gesp (“buckle, clasp”), Middle Low German gespe (“the cavity between the hands when held together”), Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of gowpen.

名詞

yepsen (複数形 yepsens)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) Amount that can be held in two hands cupped together.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) Two hands cupped together.

同意語

• goppenful, gowpen

関連する語

• yeepsen (“a double handful”)

参照

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 570
• Shipley, Joseph T. (1955) Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 739
• “yespon, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2016-10-17.