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語源 1

From 中期英語 thirl, thiril, from 古期英語 þyrel (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurhil, from Proto-Germanic *þurhilą (“hole, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷelo- which is *tr̥h₂kʷe + *-lo, from *terh₂-. Related to thrill, drill. By surface analysis, through +‎ -le.

別の表記

• thurl

名詞

thirl (plural thirls)

1. (dialectal or puristic, otherwise archaic) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
2. (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
3. (mining, obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
4. (mining, obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.

関連する語

• eyethurl
• nostril

語源 2

From 中期英語 thirlen, thurlen, thorlen, from 古期英語 þȳrlian (“to pierce”), from the noun (see above). Doublet of thrill.

別の表記

• thurl

動詞

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (transitive, puristic, otherwise obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses Bk. 3 lines 78-81

     But yet his hardnesse savde him not against the piercing dart.

     For hitting right betweene the scales that yeelded in that part

     Whereas the joynts doe knit the backe, it thirled through the skin,

     And pierced to his filthy mawe and greedy guts within.

2. (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

派生語

• thirlable

語源 3

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of throw +‎ hurl.

動詞

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.8:

     And many Authours doe in this manner wound the protection of their cause, by over-rashly running against that which they take hold-of, thirling [translating lanceant] such darts at their enemies, that might with much more advantage be cast at them.

語源 4

Dialectal alteration of thrall.

別の表記

• thrill

動詞

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
2. (by extension) To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with.
   • 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 10:

     Was everyone nowadays thirled to a formula?

   • 2005, Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street:

     And there are plenty of people — Labour politicians, for example — who want people to remain thirled to poverty, who do not want them to have any spirit or independence.

関連する語

• thirlage

名詞

thirl (plural thirls)

1. (historical) A thrall.

別の表記

• ðirl, thirle, thrile, thrill, thurl, þirile, þroll, þurl, þurle

発音

• IPA: /θirl/, /θiːrl/, /θril/
• (Western) IPA: /θyrl/, /θyːrl/

名詞

thirl (plural thirles)

1. An aperture or hole, especially of the body:
   1. A nostril (aperture in the nose)
   2. A wound or gash; an opening from injury.
   3. A window or gap in a building or vessel.
2. (rare) A private room.

関連する語

• nesethirl
• nosethirl
• thirlen

派生した語

• English: thirl, thurl
• Scots: thirl
• ⇒ Yola: thorelucke

参照

• “thirl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

thirl

1. alternative form of thirlen