nietenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From nēat +‎ -en.

発音

• IPA: /ˈni͜yː.ten/

名詞

nīeten n

1. animal
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"

     Culfre is bilewite nȳten, and fram geallan biternysse ælfremed.

     A dove is a meek animal, and a stranger to the bitterness of gall.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Fēower hund and ðūsend cræta hē hæfde, and twelf ðūsend riddena; þrēo ðūsend biġspella hē ġesette, and fīf ðūsend lēoða; and asmēade bē ǣlċum trēowcynne, fram ðām hēagan ċēderbēame, oðpæt hē cōm tō ðǣre lȳtlan ysopan. Ēac swylċe bē nȳtenum, and fixum, and fugelum hē smēade, and of eallum lēodum cōmon menn tō ġehȳrenne Salomones wīsdōm.

     He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; he composed three thousand proverbs, and five thousand songs; and he contemplated on every kind of tree, from the tall cedar, to the little hyssop. Likewise on animals, and fish, and birds, and people came from every tribe in order to hear Solomon's wisdom.

2. cattle

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• nīetenlīċ (“animalistic, brutish”)
• nīetencynn
• weorcnīeten (“work animal”)