il kとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ilke

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 ilke, from 古期英語 ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).

The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.

発音

• IPA: /ɪlk/
• 韻: -ɪlk

形容詞

ilk (not comparable)

1. (Northern England and Scotland, otherwise archaic) Very; same.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     By semblaunt, was that ilke image

使用する際の注意点

Used following a person’s name to show that he lives in a place of the same name: e.g., Johnstone of that ilk means Johnstone of Johnstone.

名詞

ilk (plural ilks)

1. A type, race, or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
   • 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

     "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago […]

   • 1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow:

     The cow is of the bovine ilk;
     One end is moo, the other, milk.

   • 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

     On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.

使用する際の注意点

• In modern use, ilk is used in phrases such as of his ilk, of that ilk, to mean ‘type’ or ‘sort.’ It often – though not necessarily – has negative connotations. The use arose out of a misunderstanding of the earlier, Scottish use in the phrase of that ilk, in which it means ‘of the same name or place’; for example, "MacLeod of that ilk" means "[the clan] MacLeod of [the place] MacLeod", in contrast to "[the clan] MacLeod of [the island] Skye". For this reason, some traditionalists regard the modern use as incorrect. It is, however, the only common current use.

同意語

• kind
• likes
• sort
• type
• hue

派生語

• of that ilk
• thilk

参照

• Elizabeth J. Jewell, Frank Abate, Erin McKean, editors (2005), “ilk”, in The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ilk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Kil

代名詞

ilk

1. (Northern) alternative form of ech