schreweとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• shrewe; schrew, sherew, shrew (Late Middle English)
• scherewe, sscherewe, sschrewe (East Saxon); schreawe (Kent); ssrewe (Southern, Southwest Midland)
• schrowe, screu, screwe, scrowe (Ireland, Northern, West Midland)

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃrɛu̯(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈskrɛu̯(ə)/, /ˈskrɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈʃrɔu̯(ə)/ (especially Northern, West Midland)

名詞

schrewe (plural schrewes or (Southern or West Midland) schrewen)

1. A scoundrel or villain; a malicious or villainous person.
2. A malign or injurious creature or thing:
   1. A demon or devil; an evil creature inhabiting Hell.
      • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 1]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 395, verso, column 1; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

        ¶ Bote Lucıfer louweſt. liȝþ of hem alle. / ffoꝛ pꝛuide þ he put out. his peyne haþ non ende. / And alle þ wrong woꝛchen. wende þei schulen / After heoꝛe deþ day. and dwellen w þat schrewe.

        And Lucifer lies the lowest of all of them, / due to the pride he displayed, his pain is unending; / and anyone who commits wrongdoing will go / after their dying day and dwell with that devil.

   2. A vice; a bad behaviour or action.
3. An abusive or annoying woman; a shrew.

使用する際の注意点

• Since such a sense is known in both Old English and modern English, it is likely that this term could also refer to the shrew (animal of the family Soricidae).

派生語

派生した語

• English: shrew (obsolete shrow)
• Middle Scots: schrew
  • Scots: shrew, scrow

参照

• “shreue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “shrew, n. & adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

語源 2

動詞

schrewe

1. alternative form of schrewen