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語源

From Proto-West Germanic *frabrinnan. Equivalent to for- +‎ birnan.

発音

• IPA^(key): /forˈbir.nɑn/, [forˈbirˠ.nɑn]

動詞

forbirnan

1. (intransitive) to burn (completely): burn down, burn up
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Exodus 3:2

     Mōȳsēs ġeseah þæt sē þyrne barn and næs forburnen.

     Moses saw that the bush was burning without being consumed.

   • c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Eft ġelamp æfter tīde fæce þætte sē ilca tūn forbarn and sēo ilce ċiriċe.

     Then after a while the same town burned down again, along with the same church.

   • c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans

     Ethna fȳr āflēow upp swā brād and swā miċel þætte eall þā clifu þe nēah þǣre sǣ wǣron forburnon tō ascan.

     Mount Etna erupted so explosively that all the cliffs near the sea were burned to ashes.

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