braidとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from 古期英語 breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”). Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly または suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

別の表記

• brayde, breyde, broid (廃れた用法)

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪd/
• Homophone: brayed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

動詞

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past braided, past participle braided or (廃れた用法) browden)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John Milton, (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     Braid your locks with rosy twine.

4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
5. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.

   1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre

派生語

• umbraid
• upbraid

名詞

braid (複数形 braids)

1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XII, [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (かつ in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore) […].

   • 1561, Thomas Sackville, Ferrex and Porrex‎^[1], Act IV, scene ii, lines 1274–7:

     He fixt vpon my face, which to my death / Will neuer part fro me, when with a braide / A deepe fet sigh he gaue, and therewithall / Clasping his handes, to heauen he cast his sight.

2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16^thc.]
3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
5. A fancy; freak; caprice.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of R. Hyrde to this entry?)

Further reading

• braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Braids on Wikimedia Commons.

形容詞

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

1. (obsolete) deceitful
   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene 2]:

     Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.

アナグラム

• Baird, bidar, rabid