ilkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ilke

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 ilke, from 古期英語 ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).

The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.

発音

• IPA: /ɪlk/
• 韻: -ɪlk

形容詞

ilk (not comparable)

1. (Scotland and Northern England) Very; same.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     By semblaunt, was that ilke image

使用する際の注意点

Used following a person’s name to show that he lives in a place of the same name, eg Johnstone of that ilk means Johnstone of Johnstone.

名詞

ilk (plural ilks)

1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
   • 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1906 February 26, →OCLC:

     "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago […]

   • 1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow:

     The cow is of the bovine ilk;
     One end is moo, the other, milk.

   • 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

     On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.

使用する際の注意点

• In modern use, ilk is used in phrases such as of his ilk, of that ilk, to mean ‘type’ or ‘sort.’ It often – though not necessarily – has negative connotations. The use arose out of a misunderstanding of the earlier, Scottish use in the phrase of that ilk, in which it means ‘of the same name or place.’ For this reason, some traditionalists regard the modern use as incorrect. It is, however, the only common current use.

同意語

• kind
• likes
• sort
• type

派生語

• of that ilk
• thilk

参照

• Elizabeth J. Jewell, Frank Abate, Erin McKean, editors (2005), “ilk”, in The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “ilk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Kil

代名詞

ilk

1. (Northern) alternative form of ech