nighenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

nighen (三人称単数 現在形 nighens, 現在分詞 nighening, 過去形および過去分詞形 nighened)

1. (intransitive) To come near; approach.
   • 1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers:

     [...] with so horrible countenance, that no man dare not nighen towards him.

2. (transitive) To bring near; appropriate.
   • 1886, William Barnes, A glossary of the Dorset dialect:

     If you take an apple from the table you (1) reach forth the hand to it, (2) you close your fingers on it, (3) you nighen or bring back your hand with it.

アナグラム

• Hennig