英和和英

語源

A merger of two closely related verbs:

• 古期英語 spellian (“to speak, tell, discourse”), from Proto-West Germanic *spellōn, from Proto-Germanic *spellōną.
• Old French espeler (“to spell, signify”), from Frankish *spelōn, ultimately from the same Proto-Germanic root.

As the native word reduced its infinitive suffix to -en (or retained -ien in conservative dialects), the French borrowing readily assimilated into the identical paradigm.

発音

• IPA: /ˈspɛlən/, /ˈspɛliən/

動詞

spellen

1. To tell, speak, declare, or preach.
2. To read out letter by letter; to spell.
3. To mean, signify, or betoken.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: spell
• Scots: spell

参照

• “spellen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “spellen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.