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語源 1

From 中期英語 ȝelp, yelp, from 古期英語 ġielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelp, from Proto-Germanic *gelpą (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”).

名詞

yelp (plural yelps)

1. An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.

   Synonym: yawp

   The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522:

     “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl, was never out of his mouth.”

2. A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.

語源 2

From 中期英語 ȝelpen, yelpen, from 古期英語 ġielpan (“to boast”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelpan, from Proto-Germanic *gelpaną (“to sound off, boast”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel‑ (“to call, shout, scream”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian jalpe, galpe (“to bleep; cheep”), German Low German galpen (“to scream, shriek, howl”), Middle High German gelpfen, gelpfen (“to roar, howl, bark, boast, sing loudly”).

動詞

yelp (third-person singular simple present yelps, present participle yelping, simple past and past participle yelped)

1. To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.

   The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.

   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:

     I followed it as well as I could, I who have so often boasted of my memory now sniffing along for what seemed a league at least like a brachet and ready almost to yelp for joy at the thought of a place I knew, after so much emptiness, silence, and blackness.

アナグラム

• Pyle

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 ġielp, ġylp, ġelp, from Proto-West Germanic *gelp, from Proto-Germanic *gelpą. Compare yelpen.

発音

• IPA: /jɛlp/

名詞

yelp (uncountable)

1. Boasting, bragging; excessive vanity or self-aggrandisement.

派生した語

• English: yelp
• Middle Scots: ȝelp
  • Scots: yelp, yalp

参照

• “yelp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 September 2018.