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語源

From faunt (“baby, infant”) +‎ -ekyn (diminutive suffix). First attested in c. 1390.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfau̯nt(ə)kin/, /ˈfant(ə)kin/

名詞

fauntekyn (plural fauntekynes)

1. A young child; a baby or toddler.
   • c. 1390, [William Langland], “Explıcıt dobet ⁊ ıncıpıt dobeſt”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 96, recto; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:

     And tho was he cleped and calde not my Crıſt but ıhu / A fauntekyn ful of wyt / filius Marıe […]

     And then he was named and called not just Christ, but Jesus, / a youngster full of thought, Mary's son […]

参照

• “fauntekin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fauntekin, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.