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• attir, etter (Scotland)

語源

From 中期英語 atter, ater, from 古期英語 āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”).

Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈætə/
• 韻: -ætə(ɹ)

名詞

atter (plural atters)

1. (archaic or UK dialectal) Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile.
2. (archaic, figuratively) Moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death.
3. (UK dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
4. (UK dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.

派生語

• attercop
• atteril
• attering
• atterly
• attermite
• attern
• atter-pile
• atterscar
• attery

動詞

atter (third-person singular simple present atters, present participle attering, simple past and past participle attered)

1. (UK dialectal) to venom; sting
2. (UK dialectal) to discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake

アナグラム

• Ratte, Treat, ratte, tater, teart, tetra, tetra-, treat

語源

From 古期英語 āttor, ǣttor, variants of ātor, from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-.

発音

• IPA: /ˈatər/

名詞

atter (uncountable, dative attre, attere)

1. A poison or toxin; that which poisons.
2. Something bitter or acrid-tasting.
3. Something purulent or pussy.
4. (figurative) A malign or corrupting thing.

関連する語

• attercoppe
• attern
• attren
• attry

派生した語

• English: atter
• Scots: atter, etter

参照

• “atter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.