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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /piːt/
• 韻: -iːt
• Homophone: Pete

名詞

peat (countable and uncountable, plural peats)

1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. [from 14th c.]
   • 1958 September, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 595-596:

     On the return journey the engine ran short of coal, and came to a stand near Penygroes through shortage of steam. Fortunately, there was some peat in a nearby field, which the enginemen dug and the directors helped to carry to the engine. Steam was soon raised and the story had a happy ending!

派生語

Further reading

• peat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Probably from Middle Dutch pete (“godmother or godfather”) (modern Dutch peet (“godparent, old woman, grandmother; godchild”)), related to dialectal German Pfette, Pfetter (“godfather; godchild”)), German Pate (“godfather, sponsor”), Patin (“godmother”). Or alternatively, related to pet (“a favourite”).

名詞

peat (plural peats)

1. (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 78:

     And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat!

参照

• Kuhn, Sherman (1982): Middle English Dictionary, Part 3, p. 880

参考

アナグラム

• PETA, Paet, Pate, Peta, epta-, pate, peta-, pâté, tape, tepa