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語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛːɡər/, /ˈmɛːɡrə/

形容詞

megre

1. Lean, haggard; suffering the physical effects of hunger.
2. (rare) Skinny, narrow, slim; showing thinness.
3. (rare) Shriveled; dried-up.

派生した語

• English: meager, meagre (Commonwealth)
  • Jamaican Creole: mawga
• Scots: meagre, meager (possibly borrowed from Modern English)

参照

• “mēgre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.