Tillyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɪli/
• 韻: -ɪli

語源 1

• (given name, nickname): Shortened from Matilda, +‎ -y.
• (surname): The surname may also have origins as a matronymic from Matilda.

固有名詞

Tilly (plural Tillys)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
   • 1990, Barbara Vine, Gallowglass, Curley Pub, published 1991, →ISBN, page 24:

     Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and you never did unconventional things, you never did things to draw attention to yourself. So they called her Matty.

2. A surname transferred from the given name.

語源 2

From French Tilly. Habitational surname from places in France named Tilly, brought to England by the Normans.

固有名詞

Tilly (countable and uncountable, plural Tillys)

1. A number of places in France.
2. A surname from Old French.

   Alternative forms: de Tilly, De Tilly, deTilly, DeTilly, Detilly.

語源 3

Diminutive of utility.

名詞

Tilly (plural Tillies)

1. Alternative letter-case form of tilly.
   • 2012, David Fiddimore, Tuesday's War, →ISBN:

     By the time he stooped to lift him up, we were all in the Tilly that Fiver had brought out to meet us.