hemとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: hĕm, IPA^(key): /hɛm/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /hɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

間投詞

hem

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

名詞

hem (複数形 hems)

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
   • January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269

     his morning hems

動詞

hem (三人称単数 現在形 hems, 現在分詞 hemming, 過去形および過去分詞形 hemmed)

1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     Hem, and stroke thy beard.

派生語

• hem and haw

参考

• ahem
• haw

語源 2

From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from 古期英語 hemm, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʿamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).

The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from 古期英語 hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.

発音

• enPR: hĕm, IPA^(key): /hɛm/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /hɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

名詞

A stitched hem

Drawing of a sheet metal hem

hem (複数形 hems)

2. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
3. A rim or margin of something.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea

4. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

派生語

• touch the hem of someone's garment

動詞

hem (三人称単数 現在形 hems, 現在分詞 hemming, 過去形および過去分詞形 hemmed)

1. (intransitive) (in sewing) To make a hem.
2. (transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
3. (transitive): To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.

   A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.

   • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way :

     He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
     The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.

派生語

• hemmer
• hem in

語源 3

From Middle English hem, from 古期英語 heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.

代名詞

hem

1. Obsolete form of 'em.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe

     And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.

   • 1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne

     For eyther of hem mayntened.

   • 1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English

     ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.

   • 1598, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Except we make hem such.

   • 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman; Ben Ionson; Ioh[n] Marston, Eastvvard Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, OCLC 1121359361, (please specify the page):

     They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.

Further reading

• hem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• hem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• hem at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Meh, meh

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hem/, [hɛ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em/, [ɛm]

間投詞

hem

1. eh?, well well! (expressing surprise)

関連する語

• ehem

参照

• “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

接頭辞

hem-

1. Alternative form of hemo-.

派生語