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語源

From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian 古期英語 ald, variant of 古期英語 eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.

発音

• enPR: ôld, IPA^(key): /ɔ(ː)ld/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɔld/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əʊld/, IPA^(key): /ɔːld/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑːld/
• (Liverpool) IPA^(key): /aːʊl/
• 韻: -əʊld, -ɔːld

形容詞

auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

1. (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) old

同意語

• aged, eldern, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old

関連する語

Further reading

• auld at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “auld”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “auld”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “auld”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Auld”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 564, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “auld”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 381, column 1.

アナグラム

• Daul, Dula, dual, laud, udal