a braidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from 古期英語 ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), of uncertain further origin. Equivalent to a- +‎ braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

別の表記

• abray

動詞

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out. [10th–13th c.]
2. (transitive, obsolete) To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon. [10th–13th c.]
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up. [11th–18th c.]
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.

     She fared as if she had started out of a sleep, / Till out of her mazedness she abrayed.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 90:

     But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l:

     But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old […]

4. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement. [from 11th c.]
5. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out. [15th–16th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea. [16th–19th c.]

関連する語

• abray

語源 2

From 中期英語 abrede. More at abread.

副詞

abraid (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of abread.

参照

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition

アナグラム

• Arabid, Rabadi, rabadi