英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Middle French nonper (“peerless”), from Old French nonper; equivalent to non- (“non-”) +‎ per (“peer”); forms lacking initial n- are due to reanalysis of a noumpere as an umpere. First attested in c. 1350.

発音

• IPA: /nuːmˈpeːr/, /numˈpeːr/
• IPA: /uːmˈpeːr/, /umˈpeːr/ (with reanalysis)

名詞

noumper

1. An arbitrator; an umpire.
2. A fallback arbitrator (if arbitrators are undecided).

派生した語

• English: umpire (obsolete umper, umpeer)
  • → Māori: amapaea
  • → Scots: umpire
  • → Spanish: umpire, ampaya, ampáyer, ompáyer

参照

• “nǒumper(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 May 2018.