英和和英

別の表記

• awf, oaf, ouph, ouphe, oph

語源

From Old Norse alfr (“elf”). Compare Danish alf, Swedish alf, alv. Doublet of alf, elf, and oaf.

発音

• IPA: /ɔːf/
• 韻: -ɔːf

名詞

auf (plural aufs)

1. (obsolete) A changeling or elf child; a child left by fairies.
   • 1605, Michael Drayton, “Battaile of Agincourt”, in Poems Lyric and Pastoral:

     Say that the Fayrie left this Aulfe,
     And tooke away the other.

2. (obsolete) A deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

参照

• “auf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “auf”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “auf”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• AFU, UAF, UFA, Ufa