welkenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• welkne, welkene, wolken, wolkne, walkyn, wolkene, walkene, walkne, welkyn, walkon
• weolcne, wolcn, wlcne, wolcnu, walcne, weolkne, wolcne (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɛlkən/, /ˈwɛlk(ə)nə/, /ˈwɔlkən/, /ˈwɔlk(ə)nə/

名詞

welken

1. The atmosphere; the area where weather happens.
2. The space or air surrounding the Earth or; the heavens or welkin.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio liiii, verso, part 6:

     Thus hath this pytous day a blyſful ende / For euery man & woman doth hys myght / Thys daye in myrth and reuel to dyſpende / Tyl on the welken ſhone the ſterres bryght / For more ſolempne in euery mannes ſyght / Thys feeſt was, and greater of coſtage / Then was the reuel of her mariage

     Thus hath this piteous day a blissful end / For every man & woman doth his might / This day in mirth and revel to dispend / Till on the welkin shone the stars bright / For more solemn in every man's sight / This feast was, and greater of costage / Than was the revel of her marriage

3. A division or layer of this space; an atmospheric region.
4. (Early Middle English) A cloud (mass of water droplets)

派生した語

• English: welkin

参照

• “welken, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-20.

語源 2

Possibly related to or from Middle Low German welken or Middle Dutch welken, ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (“cloud”). Compare also 中期英語 walwen (“to fade, wither”), from 古期英語 wealwian.

別の表記

• welkyn, welke, welk

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɛlkən/

動詞

welken

1. To become dry or aged; to decay or wither (of plants or people)
2. (rare) To crinkle or become roughened or creased.
3. (rare) To turn or grow desolate or lifeless.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: welk
• Scots: welk

参照

• “welken, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-20.