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短縮形

was't

1. (obsolete) Contraction of was +‎ it.
   • 1700, Abraham Cowley, The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley, page #29:

     Was’t not enough, when thou, prophane Diſeaſe,

     Did’ſt on this Glorious Temple ſeize ?

     Was’t not enough, like a wild Zealot, there

     All the rich outward Ornaments to tear,

     Deface the innocent pride of beauteous Images ?

     Was’t not enough thus rudely to defile,

     But thou muſt quite deſtroy the goodly Pile ?

アナグラム

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

発音

(stressed)

• (英国発音) enPR: wŏst, IPA: /wɒst/
• (米国発音) enPR: wôst, IPA: /wɔst/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: wäst, IPA: /wɑst/
• 韻: -ɒst

(unstressed)

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: wəst, IPA: /wəst/

動詞

wast

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.

   I remember the day when thou wast born.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene 2 (a hunting song)]:

     Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:11:

     And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:5:

     And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97–99:

     Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
     Yea, one wast thou with me
     That once of old.

参考

参照

• “wast”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “wast”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

語源 2

名詞

wast (plural wasts)

1. Obsolete form of waist.

アナグラム

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

動詞

wāst

1. second-person singular present of witan

別の表記

• vaste, waast, waest, waist, waste

発音

• IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

形容詞

wast (plural and weak singular waste)

1. uncultivated, deserted, desolate
2. extravagant, wasteful, excessive
3. useless, empty, meaningless

関連する語

派生した語

• English: waste
• Scots: waste

参照

• “wā̆st(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

Borrowed from Old Northern French wast (noun), from the adjective. Doublet of weste (“wilderness”).

別の表記

• waast, waste

発音

• IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

名詞

wast (plural wastes)

1. Uncultivated or deserted land; wilderness.
2. Devastation, ruination; making waste.
3. (property law) Damage to property or that which causes it.
4. The utilisation or expenditure of resources:
   1. Extravagant or wasteful consumption.
   2. Useless or ineffectual behaviour; futility.
5. (rare) Waste, rubbish; useless things.

派生した語

• English: waste
• Scots: waste
• Yola: wauste

参照

• “wā̆st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

Apparently inherited from 古期英語 *wæst, *wæxt, *weahst, from Proto-West Germanic *wahstu, from Proto-Germanic *wahstuz; compare waxen (“to grow”).

Forms with /aː/ may be due to the analogy of the variation between /aː/ and /a/ in Etymologies 1 and 2.

別の表記

• waast, waist, waste
• wacst (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

名詞

wast (plural wastes)

1. (uncommon) waist (bottom of the chest).
2. (rare) waist (middle portion of a ship's hull)

派生した語

• English: waist, waste, wast (obsolete)
  • → Japanese: ウエスト (uesuto)
• Scots: waist
• ⇒ Yola: wauscoat, wazcoote

参照

• “wā̆st(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 4

From was +‎ -est; partially replacing earlier were.

別の表記

• waste

発音

• IPA: /wast/

動詞

wast

1. (Late Middle English) second-person singular past indicative of been

派生した語

• English: wast (archaic)
• Yola: wasth

語源 5

動詞

wast

1. alternative form of wasten