英和和英

動詞

grēte

1. inflection of grētan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present/preterite subjunctive
   3. second-person singular preterite indicative

語源

From 古期英語 grēat (“big”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

発音

• IPA: /ɡrɛːt/

形容詞

grete (comparative gretter or greter, superlative grettest or gretest)

1. great, massive, amazing
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir […] ”

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派生した語

• English: great, gert, girt, gurt (dialectal)
  • → Welsh: grêt
• Scots: great, greet, grete, greit, graat (Shetland)
• Yola: graat

参照

• “grēt, adj. & adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.