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語源 1

From 中期英語 sowel, souel, suvel (“food eaten with bread; food in general”), from 古期英語 sufel, sufol (“anything (especially relish) eaten with bread; sowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *sufl, from Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”). The word is cognate with Danish sul (“sowl”), Middle Dutch suvel, zuvel (Dutch zuivel (“dairy products”)), Middle Low German suvel, süvel, suffel (“sowl”), Old High German sufil, sufili, Old Norse sufl, Norwegian suvl, sovl, sul (“milk porridge; food eaten with bread, porridge or soup”), Saterland Frisian süfel (“dairy products”), Swedish sovel (“sowl”), West Frisian suvel (“dairy products”).

別の表記

• seawl, sewl, sool, soul, soule, sow, sowe, sowel, sowle, sowli

発音

• IPA: /saʊl/, /ˈsaʊəl/
• (dialectal) IPA: /suːl/
• 韻: -aʊl, -aʊəl

名詞

sowl (plural sowls)

1. (British, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
   • 1812, Tim Bobbin [pseudonym; John Collier], “Reader. Hear a Spon-new Cank between th’ Eawther and His Buk.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, […], Salford: Printed by Cowdroy & Slack, […], →OCLC, page 16:

     Good lorjus days, whot whofo times ar' theese! / Pot-baws ar scant, an dear is seawl an cheese!

   • 1850 May 10, Hensleigh Wedgwood, “English Etymologies [continued]”, in Proceedings of the Philological Society, volume IV, number 97, London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 249:

     It [the word pittance] does not signify the whole share of each individual in a conventual meal, but merely that smaller portion of more tasty viands which in frugal housekeeping is used to give relish to the bread or pottage constituting the substance of the meal; what is still called sowl or sowling in some parts of England. The Pembrokeshire peasant says, "I have not had a bit of sowl to my bread for these six months".

   • 1857, L. P. Barnaschone, “Manners and Customs of the People of Tenby in the Eighteenth Century”, in J. Williams ab Ithel, editor, The Cambrian Journal, volume IV, London: Published under the auspices of the Cambrian Institute; Longmans & Co., J[ohn] Russell Smith, and J. Petheram; Tenby, Pembrokeshire: R. Mason, →OCLC, page 185:

     What was called "souling," or "sowling," was practised by the female portion of the poor, who visited their more wealthy neighbours, demanding "sowl," which signified, in its provincial acceptation, any condiment eaten with bread, such as meat, fish, &c., but especially cheese.

   • 1981, Geoffrey Scard, Squire and Tenant: Life in Rural Cheshire, 1760–1900 (History of Cheshire; 10), Chester, Cheshire: Chester Community Council, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:

     All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake – a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.

語源 2

From 中期英語 soul, soule, sowel, sawel (“soul”). See further at soul.

名詞

sowl (plural sowls)

1. Archaic spelling of soul.
   • 1525 September 1, Robert Richard Tighe, James Edward Davis, “Windsor in the Reign of Henry the Eighth (Continued.)”, in Annals of Windsor, being a History of the Castle and Town; with Some Account of Eton and Places Adjacent, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, published 1858, →OCLC, page 515:

     [W]here in tyme past wthin the p[ar]ish chirch of new Wyndesor hath ben kept yerely on Trinite Sunday an obitt w mass of requiem on the moro next follow for the Sowles of all the Brethren and sisters of the Trinite brotherhood there, w tyme out of mynde hath bene usyd, the said Andrew for th' inlarging of the s anniv[er]sary or obiit for more merytte to all the seyd sowls and for the well of all his good friends sowls hath gyven to the wardens of the s fraternite or Brotherhood to the brothern and systers of the same frat[er]nite and to their successors for ev[er] a certaine tenem[en]t in new Wyndsor […]

   • 1631, John Weever, “Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Diocesse of Rochester”, in Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands Adiacent, with the Dissolued Monasteries therein Contained: Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons haue beene in the Same Interred. [...], London: Printed by Thomas Harper [...] and are to be sold by Laurence Sadler […], →OCLC, page 326:

     Of yowr cherity pray for the ſowls of Reynald Peckham the elder, Squire for the body of the moſt excellent Prince king Henry the eight, who deceſed 27 Feb. 1525. and for the ſowl of of Ioice Colepeper his wife which deceſed 20. March, 1523.

   • 1829, “an independent layman” [pseudonym], “XIX. I do firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls kept prisoner there, do receive help by the suffrages of the faithful.”, in The Catholic Church Invulnerable and Invincible: Or, An Explication of the Celebrated Creed of Pope Pius IV. […], London: Published for the author, by Thomas Flint, […], →OCLC, page 113:

     [T]he guide who accompanied me […] told me, with a most serious face, that there were three different fires in purgatory, through which all the faithful passed. […] "And what is the third fire to do?" "Oh, that is to purify them entirely, and fit their sowls for the presence of the grate God!"

   • 1884, Cruck-a-leaghan [pseudonym; Dugald Macfadyen], Slieve Gallion [pseudonym; David Hepburn], “Father Magee”, in Lays and Legends of the North of Ireland, London: Houlston & Sons, […]; Edinburgh; Glasgow: J. Menzies & Co.; Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, →OCLC, page 69:

     For in all the long coorse av a twinty year's spell, / Dael an' Irishman's sowl cud he get into hell— […]

語源 3

Origin unknown; compare German zaulen, zauseln, zausen (“to tug, drag”). See also tousle.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /səʊl/
• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA: /soʊl/
• 韻: -əʊl
• 異形同音異義語: Seoul, sole, soul

動詞

sowl (third-person singular simple present sowls, present participle sowling, simple past and past participle sowled)

1. (transitive) To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 23, column 1:

     Hee'l go he ſayes, and ſole the Porter of Rome Gates by th'ears. He will mowe all downe before him, and leaue his paſſage poul'd.

   • 1876, George Bruce, “Saint Andrews Burns’ Club”, in Destiny and Other Poems, St. Andrews, Fife: Printed for the author, →OCLC, page 387:

     Like draws to like, ilk sma'-sowled cub, / To gnaw its Bane.

語源 4

From 中期英語 sōlen (“to become dirty or soiled; to make dirty, soil; to be defiled, polluted”), from 古期英語 solian (“to make or become foul, sully”), from Proto-Germanic *sulwōną, *sulwijaną; compare sullow and sully, and Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan, “to bemire”), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to besmirch, soil”), Old French soillier, souillier, soller (“to dirty, stain; to tarnish (a reputation, etc.)”) (modern French souiller), Old High German solagōn, bisullen (“to make dirty”), German suhlen (“to make dirty, soil”), Old Saxon sulian (“to mire, soil”), West Flemish sowelen, suwelen.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /səʊl/
• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA: /soʊl/
• 韻: -əʊl
• 異形同音異義語: Seoul, sole, soul

動詞

sowl (third-person singular simple present sowls, present participle sowling, simple past and past participle sowled)

1. (obsolete) To soil or stain; to dirty.

   Synonyms: sullow, sully

参照

アナグラム

• Lows, OWLs, lows, owls, slow