woとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• whoa

語源 1

Variant of who.

間投詞

wo

1. A falconer's call to a hawk.
2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

語源 2

Variant of woe.

名詞

wo (countable and uncountable, plural wos)

1. Obsolete spelling of woe.
   • 1815, Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects, page 82:

     Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 432:

     They dance around them by night, and wo to the belated peasant who, passing by, is forced to join in their roundel; he usually dies of exhaustion.

語源 3

From 中期英語 wough, woh, wouh, from 古期英語 wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

別の表記

• waw (Northern England, Scotland)
• waugh (Scotland)

発音

• IPA: /wo/, /wɔː/
• 韻: -o, -ɔː

名詞

wo (plural wos)

1. (Northern England, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, dialectal) A wall.
   • 1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9:

     He stands ahint our wo.

   • 1871, Benjamin Brierly, “Weaver of Wellbrook”, in William-Edward-Armitage Axon, editor, Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire, page 53:

     Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame,
     An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo :
     Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar,
     So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.

   • 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 41:

     […] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]

   • 1884, Jack Robison, Aald Tales ower Agen, section 4:

     Plantit up agen t'wo

   • 1936, G. Halstead Whittaker, A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose and Verse, page 221:

     Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe

     Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t' wo;

     Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets

     An' bravely withstonds o' t' misfortins hoo meets.

動詞

wo

1. (Northern England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).
   • 1871, John Richardson, "Cummerland Talk": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101:

     […] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]

   • 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2:

     It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]

アナグラム

• O/W, OW, ow, 'ow

形容詞

wō

1. inflection of wōh:
   1. strong accusative feminine singular
   2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
   4. weak nominative masculine/feminine/neuter singular
   5. weak accusative neuter singular

名詞

wō

1. dative singular of wōh

別の表記

• woo
• wa (Early Middle English or Northern); woa (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /wɔ̝ː/, (later also) /woː/
  • 韻: -ɔː
• IPA: /wɑː/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA: /waː/ (Northern)

名詞

wo (plural wos)

1. Discomfort, distress:

   Synonyms: angwissh, we

   • c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎, Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 65, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:

     Ƿa ⁊ ƿunne ı þıs ƿoꝛld al nıs bute peintunge. al nıs bute ſchadeƿe.

     Pain and joy in this world aren't anything except for a picture; they're nothing but a mirage.

   1. Pain; physical distress.
   2. Sorrow; emotional distress.
   3. A distressing punishment; torture.
   4. Lamenting; an expression of distress.
   5. Something distressing or uncomfortable.
2. Calamity, hardship, trouble:
   1. An instance of adversity.
   2. Poverty; lack of wealth.
3. Trouble; that which annoys or bothers.

派生した語

• English: woe
• Middle Scots: wa
  • Scots: wae

参照

• “wō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “woe, int., adv., n., and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

形容詞

wo

1. woeful
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes 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:

     Wo was the knight and sorroufully he syketh.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語源 2

代名詞

wo

1. alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)

語源 3

名詞

wo (plural wos)

1. alternative form of woo

名詞

w/o (plural not attested)

1. (sports) Abbreviation of walkover.
2. (scheduling) Abbreviation of week of.

   w/o January 7th

3. (finance, insurance) Abbreviation of write-off.
4. (chemistry) weight percent (percentage calculated by relative mass)

   ZrO₂ + 46 w/o UO₂ + 5 w/o Fe

5. Abbreviation of week(s) old.
6. Abbreviation of wife of.

   Sandy Steven, w/o Steven

形容詞

w/o

1. (chemistry) Abbreviation of emulsion of water in oil.

副詞

w/o (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of without.
   • 2015 July 6, “Dichloroacetate, the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex and the Modulation of mESC Pluripotency”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Once more significant differences were observed for CTR w/o LIF. (E)- Protein levels for Hexokinase I and II, GAPDH and PKM1/2 were determined by western Blot and quantified by densiometric evaluation.

関連する語

• w/
• w/i

アナグラム

• O/W, OW, ow, 'ow