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語源

From ofdūne. By surface analysis, a- +‎ dūn.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑ.duːn/

副詞

adūn

1. down, downward
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Đā ġesēah hē swymman sċealfran on flōde, and ġelōme doppettan ādūne tō grunde, ēhtende ðearle þǣre ēa fixa.

     Then he saw loons swim in the water, and often dive down toward the bottom, eagerly chasing the fish of the river.

2. in a lower place, in a low position, down, below

派生した語

• Middle English: adoun, adune, adun
  • English: adown
  • Scots: adoon, adoun, adown

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “a-dún”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.