Scheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Most likely from 古期英語 hēo, hīo (“she”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), but see she for more. Compare heo.

発音

• IPA: /ʃeː/
• IPA: /ʃoː/ (especially Northern and North Midland)
• IPA: /ʃøː/ (Southwestern and Southwest Midland)

代名詞

sche (accusative hire, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires, hiren)

1. Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she
2. It; used also of inanimate objects

使用する際の注意点

• In addition to referring to female humans and animals, this pronoun was used for inanimate objects belonging to the feminine grammatical gender early in Middle English. As grammatical gender obsolesced, this pronoun continued to refer to inanimate objects.

派生した語

• English: she

  West Riding: sho, shoo

  Ottawa Valley: she, shi

• Middle Scots: scho, sche
  • Scots: shoo
• Yola: shoo, shu, shea

参考

参照

• “shẹ̄, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.
• McIntosh, Angus; Samuels, M[ichael] L.; Benskin, Michael (2013) [1986], Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, editors, eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English‎, Edinburgh: Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics; revised 2024 November.