briggeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

参照

• “brigge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Bigger, bigger

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 bryċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *bruggju, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. The final vowel is generalised from 古期英語 inflected forms, while Northern forms with /ɡ/ are likely influenced by or even borrowed from Old Norse bryggja.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbrid͡ʒ(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈbrɛd͡ʒ(ə)/ (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent), /ˈbrud͡ʒ(ə)/ (Southern, West Midland)
• IPA: /briɡ/ (Northern)

名詞

brigge (plural brigges or (West Midland) bruggen)

1. A bridge (structure that crosses a divide)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Reue”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 51, recto:

     At Trompẏngton / nat fer fro Cantebrẏgge / Ther gooth a brook / and ouer that a brẏgge

     At Trumpington, not far from Cambridge, / There goes a brook, and over it a bridge.

   • c. 1340 [c. 1175], Kẏng Alıſaundre (Lincoln's Inn MS. Hale 150), Shropshire, translation of Roman de toute chevalerie by Thomas de Kent (in Anglo-Norman), published c. 1400, folio 72, verso; republished as Alysaunder, London: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:

     Of hurdles of bruggen þeẏ made floꝛes / And so þeẏ wente in to þe moꝛes / Þer þeẏ fouȝte and þeẏ slowe / Mo men þen ẏnowe

     From the slats of bridges they made floors / and with [them] they travelled into the moors / There they fought and vanquished / More than enough men […]

   1. A retractable bridge; a movable bridge.
   2. An entrance or exit platform.
   3. (figuratively) A straight, raised portion (e.g. the bridge of a nose).

関連する語

• Bristowe
• Cantebrigge
• drawebrigge

派生した語

• English: bridge

  Geordie: brig

  West Riding: brig

• Middle Scots: brig, bryg
  • Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
    • → English: brig, brigg
• Yola: burge

参照

• “briǧǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 July 2018.