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語源

From 中期英語 undern, ondern, from 古期英語 undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥ter, *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn.

名詞

undern (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am). [10th–15th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:

     ...wete yow wel that sir launcelot was glad and soo was that lady Elayne
     that she had geten sir launcelot in her armes...
     and soo they lay to gyders vntyl vndorne on the morn
     and alle the wyndowes and holes of that chamber were stopped that no manere of day myghte be sene

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (obsolete) Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm). [14th–15th c.]
3. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of afternoon. [from 15th c.]
4. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of evening. [from 15th c.]
5. (UK, dialectal) A light meal, particularly in the afternoon. [from 17th c.]

同意語

• (noon): meridian, sext; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (afternoon): arvo; see also Thesaurus:afternoon
• (evening): eventide; see also Thesaurus:evening
• (light meal): snack

派生語

• andersmeat, half undern, high undern, undermeal, undern-bell, undern-song, underntide, undern-time, undertide, whole undern

参照

• "undern, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

アナグラム

• dunner, end run, runned

発音

• IPA: /ˈun.dern/, [ˈun.derˠn]

名詞

undern m

1. terce, the third hour of the day (around 9 am)
2. (in some later use) midday, the sixth hour of the day (12 pm)
3. (in compounds) morning generally

同意語

• (third hour): undernmǣl, underntīd, underntima
• (sixth hour): middæġ

上位語

• stunda, tid

派生語

• underngereord, underngifl, undernmete, undernrest, undernsang, undernswæsendu

派生した語

• Middle English: ondern, undern
  • English: undern

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “undern”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.