dittenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 dyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *duttijan, from Proto-Germanic *duttijaną.

発音

• IPA: /ˈditən/
• IPA: /ˈdytən/ (West Midland)

動詞

ditten (third-person singular simple present ditteth, present participle dittynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative ditte, past participle dit)

1. (transitive) To fill up, block, or close (a container, cavity, or pit)
2. (transitive) To obstruct or block (an opening, passage or stream)
3. (transitive) To enclose or seal (someone or something)
   • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 7]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 399, recto; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     An Hep of Hermytes. henten heom ſpades. / And doluen drit. ⁊. donge. to dutte Honger oute. / ¶ Blynde and Bedraden. weoꝛe Botned a þouſent

     A heaping of hermits got themselves spades / and scooped dirt and dung to block Hunger; / the blind and bedridden were cured by the thousands.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: dit (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: dit, ditt
  • Scots: dit, ditt

参照

• “ditten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “dit, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “dit, ditt, v.”, 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.