awihtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *aiwwiht. Equivalent to ā +‎ wiht.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑːˌwixt/, [ˈɑːˌwiçt]

代名詞

āwiht n

1. anything, something [with genitive]
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History:

     “Mīn fæder, mōt iċ þē āwihtes āscian?” Cwæþ hē, “Āsca þæs þe þū wille.”

     “My father, can I ask you something?”
     He said, “Ask whatever you want.”

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

副詞

āwiht

1. at all
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?

     If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?

派生語

• nāwiht

派生した語

• Middle English: ought, ouȝt, eawiht, aht, aught, auht, aut
  • English: ought, aught, owt
  • Scots: ocht
  • Yola: aught, aaght