sh･oの英語

語源 1

副詞

sho (not comparable)

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sure.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 97:

     “I sho am glad. You sho you all right? I thought sho you was dead this time.”

2. (childish) Pronunciation spelling of so.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).

名詞

sho (plural shos)

1. A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the Chinese sheng.

   Alternative form: shō

   • 2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 120:

     The arrangement of pipes symbolizes the folded wings of the mythical phoenix, whose cry the shō's sound is said to represent.

語源 3

Of modern scholarly coinage. From its Bactrian pronunciation /ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.

名詞

sho (plural shos)

1. A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.

参考

アナグラム

• HOS, Hos., OHS, OHs, Osh, Soh, hos, ohs, osh, soh

代名詞

sho

1. (chiefly Northern) alternative form of sche

語源 2

名詞

sho (plural shon)

1. alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

語源 3

動詞

sho

1. alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)