reindeerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn (“reindeer”) + dýr (“animal”). Compare Dutch rendier (“reindeer”), German Rentier (“reindeer”), Swedish rendjur (“reindeer”). Related also to displaced 古期英語 hrān (“reindeer”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɪɹ/
• 韻: -eɪndɪə, -eɪndɪɹ
• ハイフネーション: rein‧deer

名詞

reindeer (複数形 reindeer または reindeers)

1. (複数形: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.

   Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by eight reindeer

   • 1768, D[aniel] Fenning, “LAPLAND”, in The Royal English Dictionary; or, A Treasury of the English Language, 3rd improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes and Co., T. Caslon, S. Crowder, J. Johnson, Wilson and Fell, Robinson and Roberts, and B. Collins, OCLC 22419759:

     Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.

   • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 April 2016, retrieved 10 May 2013, page 98:

     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

2. (複数形: reindeers, biology) Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.

下位語

• caribou

派生語

動詞

reindeer (三人称単数 現在形 reindeers, 現在分詞 reindeering, 過去形および過去分詞形 reindeered)

1. To herd or farm reindeer

Further reading

• reindeer on Wikipedia.