lecganとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlej.jɑn/, [ˈled.d͡ʒɑn]
• 韻: -ej.jɑn

動詞

leċġan

1. (transitive) to put or place
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English‎:

     Hwǣr leġdest þū mīne bōc?

     Where did you put my book?

2. (transitive) to bury (a person)
   • Peterborough Chronicle, year 1075

     Ēadgȳþ forþfērde on Wintanċeastre, seofon nihtum ǣr Cristesmæssan, and sē cyning hīe lēt bringan tō Westmynstre mid miċelum weorþsċipe, and leġde hīe wiþ Ēadweard cyning hire hlāford.

     Edith passed away in Winchester, a week before Christmas, and the king had her brought to Westminster with great honor, and buried her by King Edward her lord.

3. (transitive) to lay (an egg)

   Þæt ċicen leġde ǣġ ǣlċe dæġe. ― The chicken laid an egg every day.

Conjugation

• Past tense forms with the smoothed ē /eː/ for eġ /ej/ are distinctly West Saxon, where they are common.
• The eġ /ej/ and ē /eː/ forms in the past tense were more common than the æġ /æj/ forms, which can be found in West Saxon and in both sections of the Anglian Rushworth Gospels.

派生語

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派生した語

• Middle English: leyen, leyn, leygen, layn, leggen, leghen, lecchen
  • English: lay
  • Scots: lay
  • Yola: laaye, laay