wiernanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *warnijan, from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną, from *warnō (“obstacle”); related to werian (“to protect”). Cognate with Old Frisian werna, Old Norse verna (Danish værne). Compare wearnian.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwi͜yr.nɑn/, [ˈwi͜yrˠ.nɑn]

動詞

wiernan (West Saxon)

1. to refuse, deny
   • c. 1005, Wulfstan, Laws of Edward and Guthrum‎:

     Ġif dēaþsċyldiġ man sċriftsprǣċe ġierne, ne him man nǣfre ne wierne.

     If someone condemned to death desires confession, it should never be refused to them.

2. to reject, decline
3. to withhold
4. to forbid, prevent

Conjugation

派生語

• forwiernan

派生した語

• Middle English: wernen, warn, warne, werne, worne, wurne; wærnen, wearne, wearnen, weorne (Early Middle English) (through the Anglian form)

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wirnan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.