英和和英

別の表記

• queer, queere, quere, quier, qwer, qwere
• querre (East Anglia); queor, quyre (Southern, West Midland)
• qweire, qwhere, wher, where (Northern); queire, quehyr, queyr, queyre, qweyr, qweyre (Early Scots)

発音

• IPA: /kweːr/, /kwiːr/
• IPA: /kwøːr/ (Southern, West Midland)

名詞

quer (plural queres)

1. A choir (singers who musically accompany a liturgy)
2. The chancel or quire (space surrounding the altar in a church or temple)
3. (Christianity) A grouping or company of angels.
4. (rare) A chapter (individuals responsible for a ecclesiastical institution)
5. (rare) Singing or dancing.
6. (rare) Any grouping or company of individuals.

派生した語

• English: choir; quire
• Middle Scots: queir, quere
  • Scots: queir, queer

参照

• “quẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “choir, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “quer(e, queir, quear, quier, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

語源 2

名詞

quer

1. alternative form of quayer