英和和英

語源

ċīese (“cheese”) +‎ wice (“week”)

名詞

ċīeswice m

1. Cheese Week; the last week of eating cheese before Lent
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 5

     Ðis sċeal on Wōdnesdæġ, on ðǣre syxtēoðan wucan ofer Pentecosten; and on Frīḡedæġ innan ðǣre ċȳswucan

     This should [be read] on the Wednesday of the sixteenth week after Pentecost and on the Friday of the Cheese Week.

語形変化

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参照

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cýs-wuce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.