英和和英

語源

From 古期英語 arēdan, arǣdan, corresponding to a- +‎ read. Cognate with German erraten.

動詞

aread (三人称単数 現在形 areads, 現在分詞 areading, 過去形および過去分詞形 ared)

1. (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy. [11th–17th c.]
2. (obsolete) To interpret; to explain. [11th–19th c.]
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:

     Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.

3. (obsolete) To advise, counsel. [16th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:

     Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds
     To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 963:

     But mark what I arreede thee now, avant;

アナグラム

• De Aar