wilcumeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-Germanic *wiljakumô. Compare wilcuma (“welcome guest”), formed from the same root. Cognate with Old High German willicumo

発音

• IPA: /ˈwil.ku.me/, [ˈwiɫ.ku.me]

間投詞

wilcume

1. Unclear; perhaps well done, hooray, or in later years welcome. Glosses Latin euge.
   • 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23,

     Wilcymo lā ðū gōda ðeġn ⁊ lēaffull, forðon ofer lytla ðū wēre lēafull, ofer moniġo ðeh iċ setto, ġeong in glædnisse hlāferdes ðīnes.

     Well done, good and faithful servant; because you were faithful over a few things, I will place you over many; go in the gladness of your lord.

参考

• wilcuma

参照

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