s arkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown, but see Wikipedia. Richard Coates has suggested derivation from a Proto-Semitic cognate of Arabic شرق (“east, Orient”), although this is considered unlikely.

The river-name is probably derived from Proto-Brythonic *serch, of uncertain meaning and etymology but associated with "circularity".

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɑːk/
• (米国発音) enPR: särk, IPA: /sɑɹk/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)k

固有名詞

Sark

1. One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
2. A minor river in Dumfries and Galloway council area and Cumbria, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, which flows into the tidal Esk at Gretna; in full, the River Sark.
   • 1953 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Carlisle in 1905”, in Railway Magazine, page 507:

     I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; […] .

派生語

関連する語

• Sercquiais

アナグラム

• AKRs, Kars, arks, kars, ksar, skar