Croftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (MLE) IPA: /kɹɔf/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: krŏft, IPA: /kɹɒft/
• (General American) enPR: krôft, IPA: /kɹɔft/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: krŏft, IPA: /kɹɑft/
• 韻: -ɒft

語源 1

The noun is derived from 中期英語 croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from 古期英語 croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

名詞

croft (plural crofts)

1. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

   Synonym: quillet

   • 1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)

     ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...

   • 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 139:

     Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

派生語

動詞

croft (third-person singular simple present crofts, present participle crofting, simple past and past participle crofted)

1. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
2. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

派生語

• crofter
• crofting

語源 2

From 中期英語 croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from 古期英語 cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.

名詞

croft (plural crofts) (archaic)

1. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
2. A cave or cavern.

派生語

• undercroft

語源 3

A variant of carafe.

名詞

croft (plural crofts)

1. (archaic) A carafe.

参照

Further reading

• croft (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• croft (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “croft”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• ROTFC, forc't

名詞

croft m

1. an enclosed field; a croft

派生した語

• Middle English: croft, crofft, croffte, crofte, croofte
  • English: croft
  • Scots: croft, craft

語源

From 古期英語 croft, possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).

発音

• IPA: /krɔft/

名詞

croft (plural croftes)

1. croft (small field)
2. (by extension) enclosure, courtyard

派生した語

• English: croft
• Scots: croft, craft

参照

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