metanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈme.tɑn/

動詞

metan

1. to measure
2. to compare
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Lōca nu þæt þū ofergemet ne wilnige, nū ðū hī tōgædere metest. Woldest þū cunnan God swā swā Alipius?

     Look to it now that thy desire be not beyond measure, now that thou comparest them together. Wouldst thou know God just as thou dost Alypius?

3. to compare (to something = wiþ + accusative or tō + dative)
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Hit nis nā tō metenne, þæt ġeendodlīċe wiþ þæt unġeendodlīċe.

     It's not comparable, the finite with the infinite.

使用する際の注意点

• For the phrase “compared to,” wiþ is used by itself (Hū earfoþe is Crēċisċ wiþ Lǣden? = “How hard is Greek compared to Latin?”), or with the phrase tō metenne (Hwæt eart þū wiþ mē tō metenne? = “What are you compared to me?”, literally “to compare with me”).

Conjugation

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: meten
  • Scots: mete, meit
  • English: mete

語源 2

From Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną.

別の表記

• mœ̄tan — Anglian

発音

• IPA: /ˈmeː.tɑn/

動詞

mētan (West Saxon)

1. to meet, encounter
2. to find

Conjugation

派生語

• ġemētan

派生した語

• Middle English: meten
  • English: meet
  • Scots: mete, meit

語源 3

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *maitijan (“to sculpt”), from Proto-Germanic *maitijaną, a byform of Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”). Compare Old High German meizan (“to hew, cut, chisel”), Old Norse meita (“to cut”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (maitan, “to cut”). Doublet of mǣtan (“to appear in a dream”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmeː.tɑn/

動詞

mētan

1. to draw or paint

Conjugation

同意語

• *tīefran (“to paint”)

派生語

• āmētan
• ġemētan
• mēting
• onmētan

派生した語

• Middle English: meten (“to sculpt, design; paint”)