maydeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

An apocopic form of mayden, with generalisation of preconsonantal loss of /n/, as in clewe, filme, and game.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmæi̯d(ə)/

名詞

mayde (singularia tantum)

1. A young or unmarried woman.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 16, verso, lines 1169-1171:

     A man moot nedes loue / maugree hıs heed / He maẏ nat fleen it / thogh he sholde be deed / Al be she maẏde / wẏdwe / oꝛ ellıs wẏf […]

     A man must necessarily love, in spite of all he can do. / He can not flee [from] it, though he should be dead, / Whether she's a maiden, widow, or otherwise a wife […]

2. A female child; a girl.

   Synonyms: girle (rare), las (Northern), mayden, mayden child, wenche

3. A maid; a female servant.
4. A virgin (of either sex; especially due to religious abstinence)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 59, verso:

     Crıſt was a maẏde / and shapen as a man / And many a Seẏnt sıth / that the woꝛld bıgan / ẏet lẏued theẏ euere / ın ꝑfıt Chaſtıtee

     Christ was a virgin and shaped like a man, / like many saints since when the world began, / but they always lived in perfect chastity.

5. (uncommon) A woman of any age (as opposed to a man)

使用する際の注意点

• This noun is not found in the plural in Middle English, probably since /n/ of the Early Middle English plural maidene, maidenen (← mæġdenu, mæġdena, mæġdenum) was protected by the following vowel.

派生語

• mayde child

派生した語

• English: maid
  • → Afrikaans: meid
    • → English: meid
  • → Cebuano: maid
  • → French: maid
  • → Japanese: メイド (meidō), メード (mēdō)
    • → Chinese: 妹抖 (mèidǒu)
    • → English: meido
  • → Middle Scots: maid, mayd
    • Scots: maid
  • → Portuguese: maid
  • → Spanish: maid
• Yola: mydhe, midhe, myde, mide, maide

参照

• “maid(e, n. & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “maid, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.