hyveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the oblique cases of 古期英語 hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi.

発音

• (East Midland) IPA: /ˈhiːv(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA: /hiːv/, /hiːf/
• (Southern, Southwest Midland) IPA: /ˈhyːv(ə)/
• (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent) IPA: /ˈheːv(ə)/

名詞

hyve (plural hyves)

1. hive (structure housing honeybees)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 79, recto:

     Right ſo as bees / out swarmen from an hyue / Out of the deueles ers / ther gonne dryue / Twenty thouſand freres / on a route / And thurgh oute helle / swarmeden aboute […]

     Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout Hell they swarmed all about […]

派生した語

• English: hive
• Middle Scots: hyfe, hyve
  • Scots: hive
• Yola: heeve

参照

• “hīve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.