ongietanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From on- +‎ ġietan.

発音

• IPA: /onˈji͜y.tɑn/

動詞

onġietan (West Saxon)

1. to understand, recognize, comprehend
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nū ġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.

     So I wonder why you can't understand that you're still very lucky, since you're still alive and healthy.

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Iċ hī lufiġe for frēondsċype and for gefērǣdenne and þā þēah ofer ealle ōðre þe mē mǣstne fultum dōð tō onġyttanne and tō witanne gescēadwīsnesse and wīsdōm, and ealra mǣst be Gode and be ūrum sāulum; forþām iċ wōt þæt iċ mæġ ǣð myd heora fultume æfter spurian þonne iċ būtan mæġe.

     I love them for friendship and for companionship, and above all others I love those who most help me to understand and to know reason and wisdom, most of all about God and about our souls; for I know that I can more easily seek after Him with their help than I can without.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

     ...ac iċ þurh nān þincg onġytan ne mæġ hū mē sȳ þus ġelumpen þæt iċ hit þus maciġe.

     ...but I cannot at all understand how it has thus happened to me that I act thus.'

2. (poetic) to seize
3. to perceive
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

     Nu iċ wæs of þām rihtan weġe mīnes inġeþances ac betere hit bið þæt iċ eft fare ūt of þysum porte þȳlǣs þe iċ tō swīðe dweliġe and forþȳ þonne ne cume tō mīnum gefērum þe mē ǣr hyder sendon; ġewislīċe iċ hēr onġyten hæbbe þæt mē hæfð ġelǣht fæste mīnes mōdes oferstīge þæt iċ nāt nā forġeare hū iċ hit þus maciġe.

     Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.

   • Wonders of the East

     Hī habbað miċle hēafda ⁊ ēaran swā fann. Ōðer ēare hī him on niht underbredað, ⁊ mid ōðran hȳ wrēoð him. Beoð þa ēaran swīðe lēohte ⁊ him beoð ān līchoman swā hwīte swā meolc. ⁊ ġif hī hwylċne mann on þām landum ġesēoð oþþe onġytað, þonne nimað hī heora ēaran on hand ⁊ feorriað hī ⁊ flēoð, swā hrǣdlīċe swā is wēn þætte hī flēogen.

     They have great heads and ears like fans. They spread one ear under themselves at night, and cover themselves in the other. The ears are very light and their bodies are as white as milk. And if they see or perceive anyone in those lands, they take their ears in their hands and go far and flee, so quickly one might think that they flew.

Conjugation

派生した語

• Middle English: anget