heardeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈxæ͜ɑr.de/, [ˈhæ͜ɑrˠ.de]

副詞

hearde (comparative heardor, superlative heardost)

1. severely, greatly, very much, sorely
   • c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 91:

     Oft iċ beġīne þæt mē onġēan sticað, þonne iċ hnītan sċeal, hringum gyrded, hearde wið heardum, hindan þȳrel, forð āsċūfan þæt mīnes frēan mōd ᚹ freoþað middelnihtum.

     Oft I swallow that pricks me again, then I should strike, girded by rings, toughly against hard ones, stabbed from behind, shove forth that shields mind-mirth of my lord at midnights.

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hearde”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.