英和和英

別の表記

• Wellersley, Wellsley

語源

From the name of the town Wells (“springs”) + lēah (“woodland”), thus 'the woodland by the springs'.

発音

• IPA: (variously) /ˈwɛlɪzli/, /ˈwɛlzli/

固有名詞

Wellesley

1. An English surname.
2. A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts; named for the estate of local benefactor Horatio Hollis Hunnewell
3. A township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
4. Ellipsis of Wellesley College.

派生語

• Wellesley effect

派生した語

• → Fijian: weleti (literally “papaya”), via a ship named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington that first brought this fruit, see etymology there

  Fijian: leweti (by metathesis)

  Samoan: ʻesi

  Tongan: lesi