leugaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Said by Roman writers to be of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *lougā. The Celtic origin is uncertain, since the diphthong -eu- is secondary and the word lacks clear Insular Celtic cognates. There is a possible connection with Proto-Brythonic *llex (“stone”).

Simon argues that the Celtic is a borrowing from Germanic, based on reconstructed Proto-West Germanic *leuwa and Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (*liggwa); however, these forms are unattested, purely conjectural, and are themselves not given any further etymological origin, which weakens the argument considerably.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫɛu̯.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛːu̯.ɡa]

名詞

leuga f (genitive leugae); first declension

1. A unit of length defined as 1+⁄₂ Roman miles

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “leuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  “leuca (leuga)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “leuga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

“leuca et leuga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.