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発音

• IPA: /leːf/

形容詞

lēf

1. weak, frail; sick

語形変化

別の表記

• lefe, leffe, leve, life, live
• luf (Southern or West Midlands)

発音

• IPA: /leːf/

形容詞

lef

1. beloved, dear
   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:

     I have so many an ydel thoght / Purely for defaulte of slepe / That by my trouthe I take no kepe / Of noo thinge how hyt cometh or gooth / Ne me nys no thynge leve nor looth

     I have so many idle thoughts / Purely from lack of sleep / That I swear I take no heed / Of anything, whether it comes or goes, / And nothing is either dear to me or hated.

副詞

lef

1. beloved, dear

派生した語

• English: lief; ⇒ livelong
• Scots: lief, lee
• ⇒ Yola: liveer

参照

• “lẹ̄f, adj. & adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From 古期英語 lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą.

別の表記

• leef, lefe, leffe, leve, lewe, lyf
• lyeaf (Kent); lief (Southern); leof, lyeff (West Midland); leaf (Laȝamon's Brut)
• leif, leyfe, leyff, lieif (Northern)

発音

• IPA: /lɛ̝ːf/
• 韻: -ɛːf

名詞

lef (plural leves or lefes)

1. A leaf (organ of a plant):
   1. Foliage; leaves collectively
   2. A petal (organ of a flower)
   3. (figuratively, with numeral) The age of a wine in years.
2. A sheet or leaf; a thin panel of material:
   1. A sheet or leaf of paper or parchment; a page.
   2. (figuratively) A small portion or segment.
3. Something controlled or connected by a hinge:
   1. A hinged door, shutter, or window.
   2. A segment of a drawbridge.
4. (anatomy) A coating or surrounds:
   1. The fat surrounding a pig's kidneys.
   2. The tunica surrounding the eye.
   3. The tissue between the esophagus and trachea.
5. A sliding shutter or window.
6. (rare) A lobe of the lungs.

派生した語

• English: leaf
  • Tok Pisin: lip
• Middle Scots: leif
  • Scots: leif, leaf, laef, laif
• Yola: laafe

参照

• “lēf, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “leaf, n..”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Norri, Juhani, compiler (2016), “leaf”, in Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550, part I & II, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 586.