mabinogionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Welsh Mabinogi (“instruction for young bards”), coined by the Welsh grammarian William Owen Pughe in 1795. The name originated from mabynnogyon, which occurs at the end of one of the four branches, and is now considered to have been a scribal error, mistaken as the plural for Welsh mabinogi, which is already plural, derived in an unclear manner from mab (“son, boy”).

発音

• English (英国発音) IPA: /ˌmæbəˈnoʊɡi.ən/
• Welsh IPA: /mabiˈnɔɡ.jɔn/

固有名詞

the Mabinogion

1. The earliest prose literature of Britain, compiled in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions by medieval Welsh authors.