brethenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• breeth, breþe, breþyn
• breþi (Southern); brethyn (Promptorium Parvulorum)

発音

• IPA: /ˈbrɛ̝ːðən/, /ˈbreːðən/

動詞

brethen (third-person singular simple present bretheth, present participle brethende, brethynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle brethed)

1. (intransitive) To breathe; to engage in respiration.
   1. (transitive) To breathe life or inspiration into.
   2. (intransitive, rare) To take a break or breather (in battle).
2. (intransitive) To evaporate; to become vapour.
3. (intransitive) To smell; to emit an odour.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: breathe
  • → Middle Scots: braith
    • Shetland: braed

参照

• “brēthen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “breathe, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 brēoþan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuþan, from Proto-Germanic *breuþaną.

別の表記

• breoðen (Laȝamon's Brut)

発音

• IPA: /ˈbreːðən/

動詞

brethen (third-person singular simple present bretheth, present participle brethende, brethynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle brethed)

1. (intransitive, rare) To decay; to become ruined or destroyed.

Conjugation

参照

• “brẹ̄þen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “brethe, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.