delfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English delf, delve, dælf (“a quarry, clay pit, hole; an artificial watercourse, a canal, a ditch, a trench; a grave; a pitfall”), from 古期英語 delf, ġedelf (“delving, digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug, delf, ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”). More at delve.

発音

• 韻: -ɛlf

名詞

delf (複数形 delfs または delves)

1. A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
2. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod.
3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)
   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park

     Five nothings in five plates of delf

   • 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, OCLC 1181050081, part I, page 26:

     Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

   • 1864, Browning, Robert, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 832‎^[1], retrieved 2012-01-18:

     That's all—do what we do, but noblier done— / Use plate, whereas we eat our meals off delf, / (To use a figure).

   • 1941, Sarah Atherton, Mark's Own, Bobbs-Merrill:

     Men can't munch from meatless pots and doughless delf.

派生語

• stonedelf

参照

アナグラム

• FDLE, fled

語源

From the verb delfan (“to delve, dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban, from Proto-Germanic *delbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ-.

発音

• IPA^(key): /delf/, [deɫf]

名詞

delf n (nominative 複数形 delf)

1. digging, excavation
2. that which is dug: trench, quarry, canal

語形変化

派生語