英和和英

アナグラム

• Hangeul, han-geul, hangeul

語源

From 古期英語 hlæhhan, alternative form of hlehhan, hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.

発音

• (primarily Early ME) IPA: /ˈlaxən/, /ˈlɛxən/
• IPA: /ˈlau̯xən/, /ˈlɛi̯xən/, /ˈlixən/

動詞

laughen

1. To laugh; to break out in laughter or laughing.
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 961–963:

     But right anon the worthy Knyght bigan / whan that he saugh that al the peple lough: / "Namoore of this, for it is right ynough!

     But right away the worthy Knight started / when he saw that all the people laughed: / "No more of this, because that's enough!

2. To express glee or joyfulness; to show happiness.
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1723–1724:

     And Venus laugheth upon every wight / For Januarie was bicome hir knyght

     And Venus laughs about every person / As January has become her knight

3. (usually with a preposition) To reminisce about; to remember with affection.
4. (rare) To laugh about an incident or thing.

Conjugation

派生語

• laughter
• lawghynge

派生した語

• English: laugh
• Scots: lauch
• Yola: leeigh, leigh

参照

• “laughen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 July 2018.