be・ganの英語

動詞

began

1. simple past of begin
2. (obsolete or colloquial) past participle of begin
   • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 285:

     He had no sooner been free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of Louisa’s accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, than he had began to feel himself, though alive, not at liberty.

派生語

• beganst

アナグラム

• Bange, abeng, benga

発音

• IPA: /beˈɡɑːn/

動詞

begān

1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into, go through, traverse
   • c. 994, Ælfric, De Anno (On the Year)

     Nū miht ðū understandan þæt lǣssan ymbgang hæfð sē mann þe gǣð abūtan ān hūs, þonne sē ðe eall ðā burh begǣð.

     Now, you might understand that the person who goes around a single house has a smaller circuit than the one who goes around the whole city.

2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect
   • Se ðe æcer begǽþ. ― He who cultivates land (acre) … a farmer (Ælfc. Gr. 7; Som. 6, 44.)
3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, quoting "Circumdederunt me gemitus"

     Dēaþes ġeōmerunga mē beēodon, and helle sārnyssa mē beēodon, and iċ on mīnre ġedrefednysse Drihten clypode, and hē of his hālgan temple mīne stemne ġehyrde.

     The wailing of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell surrounded me, and in my distress I called out to the Lord, and from his holy temple he heard me.

   • Hí ðone búr útan beeódon. ― They surrounded the dwelling outside. (Chr. 755; Th. 83, 26, col. 1)
4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself
   • He begǽþ unmǽtas ― He commits gluttonies. (Deut. 21, 20)
   • Begá ðé sylfne to árfæstnysse ― Train thyself to godliness. (1 Tim. 4, 7)

Conjugation

派生語

• forebegān
• misbegān
• unbegān

派生した語

• Middle English: bigon, begon
  • English: bego

参照

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “begān”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “begān”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.