medudryncとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From medu (“mead”) +‎ drynċ (“drink”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈme.duˌdrynt͡ʃ/

名詞

medudrynċ m

1. (poetic) mead-drink
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Hwīlum ylfete song dyde iċ mē tō gomene, ganetes hlēoþor ond huilpan swēġ fore hleahtor wera, mǣw singende fore medodrince.

     Sometimes I made the swan song as a mirth to myself, the gannet’s speech and the hwilp’s noise instead of laugher of men, the singing seagull instead of a mead-drink.

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “medu-drinc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.