acheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from 古期英語 acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).

The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.

発音

• enPR: āk, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

動詞

ache (third-person singular simple present aches, present participle aching, simple past ached or (廃れた用法) oke, past participle ached or (廃れた用法) aken)

1. (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.

   My feet were aching for days after the marathon.

   Every muscle in his body ached.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 13:

     By'r lakin, I can goe no further, Sir, / My old bones akes:^[sic] here's a maze trod indeede / Through fourth rights, & Meanders: / by your patience, I needes muſt reſt me.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

2. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

派生語

• ache for

名詞

ache (複数形 aches)

1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

   You may suffer a minor ache in your side.

   The aches and pains died down after taking an analgesic.

   • c. 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene II:

     Fill all thy bones with aches.

派生語

参考

• hurt

参照

• Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition.

語源 2

From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“celery”). Reinforced by modern French ache.

発音

• enPR: āch, IPA^(key): /eɪt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

名詞

ache (複数形 aches)

2. (obsolete or historical) Parsley.

派生語

• lovage (by folk etymology)
• smallage

語源 3

Representing the pronunciation of the letter H.

発音

• enPR: āch, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

名詞

ache (複数形 aches)

1. Rare spelling of aitch.

アナグラム

• Aceh, Chae, Chea, HACE, each, hace