were nとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 weren, from 古期英語 wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, and wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were +‎ -en.

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動詞

weren

1. (obsolete) plural simple past of be
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     But sike fancies weren foolerie,
     And broughten this Oake to this miserye.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Therein an hundred raunges weren pight,
     And hundred fornaces all burning bright;

   • 1889, John Gower, edited by Henry Morley, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis:

     For of the falsé Moabites
     Forth with the strength of Amonites
     Of that they weren first misget,

アナグラム

• newer, renew

別の表記

• were, wern, weryn
• (after Old Norse vera) waren, warn, worn, woren

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɛ̞ːr(ə)n/, /ˈwɛ̝ːr(ə)n/, /ˈwɛr(ə)n/

動詞

weren

1. plural past indicative/subjunctive of been
   • c. 1450, Richard the Redeless:

     And rafte was youre riott and rest, for youre daiez weren wikkid […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1450, Prose Merlin:

     Whan these thre kynges weren abedde and at her ese that nyght, the storye seith that they lay till on the morn that thei ronge to messe right erly, for it was a litill afore Halowmesse.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1450, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers:

     And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, which werne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.

派生した語

• English: were (obsolete wern, weren)

語源 2

From 古期英語 werian. Strong forms are analogical to beren, teren, etc.

別の表記

• wern, werien, veren

動詞

weren (third-person singular simple present wereth, present participle werende, werynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wered)

1. to wear, be clothed with

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: wear
• Scots: were, weir
• Yola: waare

参照

• “wēren, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

動詞

weren

1. alternative form of werren