oneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• wone, o (both 廃れた用法)
• (Arabic numeral): 1 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• (Roman numeral): I

語源 1

From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from 古期英語 ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“single, one”).

Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.

Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated French on.^[1]

Verb form from Middle English onen.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /wʌn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /wan/, [wän]
  • Homophone: won (Etymology 1)
• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /wɒn/
  • Rhymes: -ɒn
  • Homophone: won (Etymologies 2 かつ 3)
• (米国用法) enPR: wŭn, IPA^(key): /wʌn/
  • Rhymes: -ʌn
  • Homophone: won (Etymology 1)
• (廃れた用法) enPR: ōn, IPA^(key): /oʊn/; (Early Modern English) IPA^(key): /ɔːn/

Around the 14th century, in southwest and western England, the word began to be pronounced with an initial /w/^[1][2] (compare e.g. woak, Middle English wocke, a dialectal form of oak),^[3] and the spellings won and wone began to be found alongside on, one;^[4] the /w/, though initially nonstandard, had become the norm by the 18th century.^[1] In alone, atone, and only,^[2] as well as in the dialectal form un, 'un^[1] (かつ in none かつ no),^[5] the older pronunciations without /w/ are preserved,^[1][2] while once shows the same /w/.

数詞

one

1. The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

   In some religions, there is only one god.

   In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.

   One person, one vote.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 1968, Harry Nilsson (lyrics かつ music), “One”, in Aerial Ballet:

     One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one

2. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
3. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
4. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.

同意語

• yan, yen (Northumbria, Cumbria)

派生語

関連する語

• first (ordinal)
• none
• once
• onesome

派生した語

• Bahamian Creole: wan
• Belizean Creole: wan
• Bislama: wan
• Gullah: one
• Jamaican Creole: wan
• Nigerian Pidgin: wọ́n, wọn
• Sranan Tongo: wan
• Tok Pisin: wan
• → Atong (India): wan
• → Fanagalo: wan

代名詞

one (再帰的用法 oneself, possessive adjective one’s, 複数形 ones)

1. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

   Any one of the boys.  The big one looks good.  I want the green one.  Every one of the bank’s employees.  A good driver is one who drives carefully.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 6”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Which happies thoſe that pay the willing lone; / That's for thy ſelfe to breed an other thee / Or ten times happier be it ten for one, […]

2. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.

   She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.

   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations‎^[2]:

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

4. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

   Synonym: generic you

   One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[3]:

     She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […] — all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎^[4]:

     ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […].

   • 2013 September 6, Philip Hoare, “If we're all Martians, who are the aliens?”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 48:

     One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.

5. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.

   "driver", noun: one who drives.

使用する際の注意点

• See they § 使用する際の注意点.

同意語

• (unidentified person): you, they (in nominative personal case)

派生語

名詞

one (複数形 ones)

1. The digit or figure 1.
2. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
   1. (US) A one-dollar bill.

      I need some ones to make change.

   2. One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
      • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter 5, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 97:

        It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

      • 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

        The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.

      • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

        It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.

   3. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
   4. A joke or amusing anecdote.

      Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?

3. (followed by for) A person (having some specified characteristic または attribute).
   • 1905, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 55:

     Pause. They look meaningly at one another. / "You are a one for being roundabout," says the lady.

4. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.

   I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.

   That car's the one — I'll buy it.

   • 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?:

     When you love a woman then tell her / that she's really wanted / When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one / 'cause she needs somebody to tell her / that it's gonna last forever

5. (dated) (euphemistic or derogatory) A gay person.
   • 1933 March 25, Dorothy Parker, “The Diary of a Lady”, in The New Yorker‎^[5], page 13:

     Finally got Ollie Martin. He couldn't have more poise, and what do I care if he is one?

6. (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
7. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".

   A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!1!?1!

   Someone help me; I'm always losing!?

   B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

   Why don't you just go away loser!

   • 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
   • 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
   • 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet

同意語

• (数学: multiplicative identity): unity
• (米国用法: one-dollar bill): single
• (sarcastic substitution for !): 1, eleven

形容詞

one (not comparable)

1. Of a period of time, being particular.

   One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.

   My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."

3. Sole, only.

   He is the one man who can help you.

   The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.

4. Whole, entire.

   Body and soul are not separate; they are one.

5. In agreement.

   We are one on the importance of learning.

6. The same.

   The two types look very different, but are one species.

限定詞

one

1. Used for emphasis in place of a
   1. Being a preeminent example.

      He is one hell of a guy.

   2. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".

      The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.

派生語

動詞

one (三人称単数 現在形 ones, 現在分詞 oning, 過去形および過去分詞形 oned)

1. To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
   • c. 1382 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:

     Toldyng of temporell ordinaunce, assembled and oned in the lokyng of the Divine thoughte

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1994, Christopher Nugent, Mysticism, Death and Dying, page 55:

     The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge.

   • 2000, Carolyn Baker, The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling the Healing Process, page 145:

     And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.

   • 2003, Elizabeth MacKinlay, Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life, page 83:

     Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.

   • 2019, David Grieve, Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain, page 43:

     What might be if we were Oned? United, as we would say, but at a greater depth than being a season ticket holder in a football club, or a shareholder in some conglomerate.

参考

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

参照

• one at OneLook Dictionary Search
• one on Wikipedia.

語源 2

Analogous to several senses of Min Nan ê and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的 / --ê as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one; green ones”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).

発音

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /wʌn/, [wän˦], (at the end of sentences) [wän˦˧]

不変化詞

one (Singapore, Singlish)

1. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.

   Got almonds one. ― There are almonds in it.

   How come so heavy one? ― Why is it so heavy?

   • 2000 February 14, Patricia Mok, The Straits Times, Singapore, Life!, page 5:

     ‘My boyfriends very possessive one. They don’t allow me to wear clothes I want, do things I want,’ she laments.

   • 2004, Ethical Egoist, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

     Why so special one?

2. Used in place of the direct object at the end of a sentence to highlight the grammatical agent.

   My friend send one. ― It was sent by my friend.

   Who say one? ― Who said so?

   • 2011, Singrish King, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

     ooooooooooar! you own self admit one har! i never say one har!

3. A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.

   The sell fruits one went home already. ― The fruit seller went home.