yfelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz.

発音

• IPA: /ˈy.fel/, [ˈy.vel]
• 韻: -y.fel

形容詞

yfel (comparative wiersa, superlative wierrest)

1. bad
2. bad in a moral sense, evil

使用する際の注意点

• Yfel was the general word for “bad”, not just “evil”. Hence phrases such as yfel ġesihþ (“bad eyesight”), yfel hlyst (“bad hearing”), yfel wyrd (“bad fortune”), and yfel bȳsn (“bad example”).

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: yvel, uvel, evel
  • English: evil
  • Scots: evil, ewil

名詞

yfel n

1. something bad or bad things collectively; harm, misfortune
2. evil
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     ...;sē ūs ġescylt wið eallum yfellum.

     ...;He shieldeth us against every evil.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

Forms with syncope are also attested, and are declined as a short stem: Strong a-stem:

同意語

• (adjective): un-
• gal
• unweorþ
• trag

反意語

• gōd (“good”)
• til (“good”)

派生語

• yfele (“badly”)
• yfelian (“to wrong”)
• yfelnes
• yfelsacian (“to blaspheme”)
• yfelwillende (“malicious”)

派生した語

• Middle English: yvel, uvel, evel
  • English: evil
  • Scots: evil, ewil