Walesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Wales, from 古期英語 Wēalas, plural of wealh (“Celt, Welsh person”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”). Compare the second element in Cornwall, and also Gaul.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: wālz, IPA: /weɪlz/, [weɪɫz]
• 韻: -eɪlz
• 異形同音異義語: whales, wails (whales in accents with wine-whine merger)

固有名詞

Wales (countable and uncountable, plural Waleses)

1. One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

   Meronyms: North Wales, South Wales; see also Category:Places in Wales

   • 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 364:

     Reassured and pleased with the railway, the Queen returned from Paddington to Slough on June 23, bringing with her the infant Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.

   • 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2023:

     A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.

2. (historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
3. A surname.
4. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city in Alaska.
   2. A town in Maine.
   3. A town in Massachusetts.
   4. A town in New York.
   5. A city in North Dakota.
   6. A town in Utah.
   7. A village in Wisconsin.
6. A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.

同意語

• (country or Welsh area): Cymru, Welshland
• The Principality

関連する語

• (constituent country): Welsh

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wales is the 6602 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5,133 individuals. Wales is most common among White (88.04%) individuals.

参照

アナグラム

• lawes, Swale, sweal, alews, weals, Slewa, swale, aswel

語源

From 古期英語 Wēalas, plural of wealh; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) +‎ -es.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwaːl(ə)s/

固有名詞

Wales

1. Wales (a medieval principality and region of the Kingdom of England)

派生した語

• English: Wales
• Scots: Wales

参照

• “Wāles, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.