makenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -eɪkən

動詞

maken

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of make
   • 1542, Eraſmus of Roterodame, “The Saiynges of Alexander the Greate”, in Nicolas Vdall, transl., Apothegmes […] ‎, page 197:

     And emõges his familiares theſe wordes folowyng were muche in his mouthe: The damyſelles of Perſia maken ſore yies.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 410:

     To whom no ſhare in armes and cheualree, / They doe impart, ne maken memoree […]

   • 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature [D4], verso:

     All theſe Starres maken one hundred and eight, / Bright and conſpicuous without deceite.

アナグラム

• Ekman, Kamen, Manke

語源

From 古期英語 macian, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmaːkən/, /ˈmakən/

動詞

maken (third-person singular simple present maketh, present participle makynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle made)

1. To make or create; to have something made.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:1-2”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     In þe bigynnyng God made of nouȝt heuene and erþe. / Forſoþe þe erþe was idel and voide, and derkneſſis weren on the face of depþe; and the Spiryt of þe Lord was borun on the watris.

     In the beginning, God made the sky and the Earth out of nothing. / The Earth was inactive and empty, and darkness was on top of the seas' surfaces, and the Spirit of the Lord moved on the water.

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 9–12:

     And ſmale foweles maken melodye / That ſlepen al the nyght with open ye / So priketh hem Nature in hir corages / Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages […]

     And small birds make song / that sleep all night with their eyes open / (as Nature pokes them in their hearts). / Then people want to go on pilgrimages […]

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xiii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XXI, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 430, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 860, lines 29–31:

     & ſomme englyſſhe bookes maken mencyon that they wente neuer oute of englond after the deth of ſyr Launcelot / but that was but fauour of makers […]

     And some English books make claims that they never went out of England after the death of Sir Lancelot, / but that was only authors' biases […]

使用する際の注意点

• After the Early Middle English period, the irregular past forms of this verb become vastly more common than their regular alternatives; maked continues to occasionally appear in the Early Modern English literary language.

Conjugation

派生語

• make
• maker
• unmaken

派生した語

• English: make

  Geordie: myek

  Ottawa Valley: mek

  Yorkshire: mak, mek

• Scots: mak, maak
• Yola: maake, maak

参照

• “māken, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 March 2019.