英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbaɪə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbaɪɚ/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)

名詞

byre (plural byres)

1. (chiefly British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,
     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ’Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):

     The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

同意語

• cowbarn, cowhouse

等位語

• cowshed

アナグラム

• Brey, Byer, Erby, yerb

発音

• IPA: /ˈby.re/

名詞

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. child, son, descendant; young man, youth

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

語源 2

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“hill, elevation”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈby.re/

名詞

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. mound

語源 3

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈby.re/

名詞

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. strong wind, storm

派生した語

• Middle English: bir, bire, bur, byre
  • English: birr

語源 4

From Proto-Germanic *burjaz (“opportunity”), related to 古期英語 byrian (“to come up, occur”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈby.re/

名詞

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. time, opportunity; occurrence

派生語

• ambyre (“favorable, fair”)

語源 5

Probably related to 古期英語 būr. Perhaps identical to the word for a farm or dwelling in German -büren, Dutch -buren.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbyː.re/

名詞

bȳre n (nominative plural bȳru)

1. stall, shed, hut

派生語

• cūbȳre m (“cow-byre, cow-shed”)

派生した語

• English: byre