whalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 hwæl, from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz.

The form with /aː/ originates from open-syllable lengthening in inflected forms, while the form swale may reflect the influence of squalus.

発音

• IPA: /hwal/, /hwaːl/
• (dialectal) IPA: /w-/, /xw-/

名詞

whal (plural whales or whalles)

1. A whale or cetacean.
2. (rare) An oceanic monster.
3. (rare) The meat of the whale.

派生した語

• English: whale
• Middle Scots: quhale, quhaill, quhaile
  • Scots: whaul

参照

• “whāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 September 2018.