英和和英

語源

From hwīt +‎ -nes.

発音

• IPA: /ˈxwiːt.nes/, [ˈʍiːt.nes]

名詞

hwītnes f

1. whiteness
   • Wonders of the East

     Þā wīf syndon ðrēotȳne fōta lange ⁊ heora līċ bið on marmorstānes hwītnysse. ⁊ hī habbað olfenda fēt ⁊ eoferes tēð. For heora unclēnnesse hīe ġefelde wurdon fram ðām mycclan macedoniscȧn Alexandre. Þā hē hī lifiende ġefōn ne mihte þā ācwealde hē hī for ðam hī syndon ǣwisċe on līchoman ⁊ unweorðe.

     Those women are thirteen feet tall and their bodies are the whiteness of marble. And they have the feet of camels and teeth of a boar. For their uncleanliness, they were killed by Alexander the Great of Macedon. He killed them because he could not capture them alive, because they are worthless and foul of body.

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: hwitnesse, whytnesse, whitnesse, whitenesse
  • English: whiteness

参照

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