bedlawereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From bed (“bed”) + *law(e) + -ere (agent noun suffix). Multiple theories exist regarding the origin of *law(e):

• Derivation from 古期英語 lǣw (“injury”) or -lǣwe (“having an injury”); however, the putative *beddlǣw or *beddlǣwe would be contrary to the pattern of other formations with lǣw, -lǣwe, where the first element denotes either the injury or its source; compare 中期英語 dronkelewe (“habitually drunk”), thirstlewe (“thirsty”).
• Borrowing from an unattested "laying" sense of Old Norse lag (“layer, deposit”); compare English bedlayer, bedlier (“bedridden person”) and Middle High German betteligeric (modern German bettlägerig) for the formation.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɛdˌlau̯ər(ə)/, /ˈbɛdˌlau̯r(ə)/, /ˈbɛdlər(ə)/

名詞

bedlawere (plural *bedlaweres)

1. (Late Middle English) A bedridden individual.

   Synonym: bedrede

派生した語

• Middle Scots: bedlyar; bedrell
  • Scots: bedlar; beddral

形容詞

bedlawere

1. bedridden (confined to bed)

   Synonym: bedrede

派生した語

• Middle Scots: *bedlar; bedaill, bedrall, bedrell

参照

• “bed-lawer(e, n. & adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “bedlar, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “bedlare, a. and n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.