英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Old French aventurer with the suffixation of -en (infinitive forming suffix). Related to English adventure, venture and 中期英語 aventure, auntrous.

動詞

auntren (third-person singular simple present auntreth, present participle auntrende, auntrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle auntred)

1. to venture, risk (one's life), dare
2. to happen, occur
3. (also reflexive) to undertake, try, take a chance
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 4205-4206:

     He auntred him and has his nedes sped,
     And I lie as draf-sek in my bed.

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