Alfredとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Alfred, from 古期英語 Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) +‎ rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery.

The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in 古期英語 was pronounced with [v], as shown in its 中期英語 descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).

発音

• IPA: /ˈælfɹəd/
• (Appalachians, dated) IPA: /ˈælfɚd/

固有名詞

Alfred

1. (individuals) Alfred the Great, early king of England.

   Alternative form: Ælfred

2. A male given name from Old English.
   • 1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC:

     Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.

   • 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.

3. (rare) A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A town, the county seat of York County, Maine, United States.
5. A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
6. A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.

派生語

関連する語

• Alfreda f
• Alfredo, alfredo, fettuccine Alfredo
• Avery

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• Alfred (name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred, Maine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Falder, fardel, fardle, farled, flared, larfed