we nとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 wen, wenne, from 古期英語 wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.

名詞

wen (plural wens)

1. A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [220]:

     There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.

   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Walden:

     When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:

     I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.

   • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 125:

     Wen, Wen, little Wen,
     here you must not build, here have no abode
     but you must go north to the nearby hill
     where, poor wretch, you have a brother.

派生語

• Great Wen

語源 2

From 古期英語 wynn.

名詞

wen (plural wens)

1. Obsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”).

語源 3

Eye dialect spelling of when.

副詞

wen (not comparable)

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when.

接続詞

wen

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when.

代名詞

wen

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when.

名詞

wen (uncountable)

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when.

アナグラム

• New, new, new-

発音

• IPA: /weːn/
• 韻: -eːn

名詞

wēn f

1. expectation
2. likelihood
3. (poetic) hope
4. probability
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Octaves and Circumcision of our Lord"

     Wēn is þæt eower sum nyte hwæt sy ymbsnidennys.

     It is probable that some of you know not what circumcision is.

   • 1000. West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan.

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: wene, wen
  • English: ween
  • Scots: wen, wene

名詞

wen

1. alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

語源 2

名詞

wen (uncountable)

1. alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

語源 3

動詞

wen

1. (Northern) alternative form of winnen (“to win”)