Loweとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• Loew, owel, wole

別の表記

• lawhe, loughe, low, lowhe
• logh, lou, loue (Northern, North Midland)
• lohe (AB language); loȝhe (Ormulum)

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

名詞

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Fire, blazing; massed flames.
2. A flame or blaze; an instance of fire.
3. (rare) Light or an instance of it; a glimmer.

関連する語

• lowen

派生した語

• English: low, lowe
• Middle Scots: low, lowe
  • Scots: low, lowe

参照

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 hlāw (also hlǣw), from 古期英語 hlāwe, 古期英語 hlǣwe), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

The final vowel is generalised from 古期英語 hlāwe, either as a dative singular or as an occasional ō-stem accusative/genitive singular (either adopting the feminine gender as expected from ō-stems or remaining masculine).

別の表記

• lawe (Northern / North Midland); low (Late Middle English)
• law (Early Scots)

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

名詞

lowe (plural lowes)

1. A barrow or mound; a gently rising and rounded natural promontory.

使用する際の注意点

• Since such a sense is known in both Old English and modern English, it is likely that this term could also refer to artificial burial mounds.

派生した語

• English: low; law
• Middle Scots: law
  • Scots: law, la

参照

• “loue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “low, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 192-193.

語源 3

動詞

lowe

1. alternative form of loven (“to praise”)

語源 4

動詞

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to moo”)

語源 5

動詞

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to burn”)