英和和英

別の表記

• ferth, ferþe, fferth, firthe, firþe, fourth, fourthe, fourþe, fourte; IIII
• feorðe, forðe, veorðe (Early Middle English)
• feorþe, feurþe, furde, furþe, fuyrthe, veorþe, verþe (Kent, Southern, West Midland)
• ferd, ffeerde, fortt, fourt, fowrt (especially East Anglia or Northern)
• feird, foerth, forde (Northern); feirde, ferde, feyrde (Early Scots)

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 fēorþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô; equivalent to and often remodelled after four +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfeːrð(ə)/, /ˈfɛːrð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈfɔu̯rð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/ (by analogy with four)
• IPA: /ˈvøːrð(ə)/ (Southwest Midland, Southern)

形容詞

ferthe

1. fourth
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:7, folio 118, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ þe firſte beeſte .· liyk a lioun / ⁊ þe ſecounde beeſte .· lijk a calf / ⁊ þe þꝛidde beeſte .· hauynge a face as of a man / ⁊ þe fourþe beeſte .· liyk an egle fleynge

     And the first beast [was] like a lion; and the second beast [was] like a calf; and the third beast had a face like a human; and the fourth beast [was] like an eagle flying.

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 451–452:

     Swiche manere wordes hadde we on honde / Now wol I ſpeken of my fourthe houſbonde.

     Those kinds of words we had on hand / Now I'll speak of my fourth husband.

派生した語

• English: fourth
• Middle Scots: ferd, fourt
  • Scots: fourt
• Yola: vourthe

参照

• “fẹ̄rthe, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.

名詞

ferthe

1. One of four equal parts of a whole; a fourth.

派生した語

• English: fourth
• Middle Scots: ferd, fourt
  • Scots: fourt

参照

• “fẹ̄rthe, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.