Doughtyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• doubty (obsolete)

語源

The adjective is derived from 中期英語 doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from 古期英語 dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg.

The English word may be analysed as dought +‎ -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”).

The noun is derived from the adjective.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdaʊti/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdaʊti/, [-ɾi]
• (Canada, Canadian raising) IPA: [ˈdʌʊ̯ɾi]
• 韻: -aʊti

形容詞

doughty (comparative doughtier or more doughty, superlative doughtiest or most doughty)

1. (literary or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous.

   Synonyms: dauntless, fearless, intrepid, resolute, stouthearted, valiant; see also Thesaurus:brave

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly

   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21:

     Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.

   • 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “‘Tennessee Williams,’ by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 13]”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 August 2019:

     [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams's play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

派生語

名詞

doughty (plural doughties)

1. (archaic, rare) A person who is bold or brave.

参照

語源

From 古期英語 dohtiġ, dyhtiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg, *dohtag.

Forms with /u/ (/uː/ through lengthening before /xt/) are likely due to the analogy of douen (early /ˈduɣən/).

発音

• IPA: /ˈduxtiː/, /ˈduːxtiː/, /ˈdɔxtiː/, /ˈdɔu̯xtiː/

形容詞

doughty (comparative doughtiere, superlative doughtiest)

1. Brave, fearless, doughty; demonstrating valiance.
2. Amazing, fine; of high quality or worth.

関連する語

• dought
• doughtyly
• doughtynesse

派生した語

• English: doughty
• Scots: douchty, douchtie

参照

• “doughtī, adj & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-11.