knokkenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 cnocian, from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną. Forms with a short vowel are possibly due to trisyllabic shortening.

発音

• IPA: /ˈknɔkən/, /ˈknɔ̞ːkən/

動詞

knokken (third-person singular simple present knokketh, present participle knokkynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle knokkedaccel-form=1//3|s|past|ind)

1. To pound; to beat down.
2. To strike (with a weapon or one's head)
3. To knock or rap on (something).
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 3:20, page 118v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     lo I ſtonde at the doꝛe .· ⁊ knocke if ony man heriþ my voys · ⁊ openeþ þe ȝate to me · I ſhal entre to hym · ⁊ ſoupe with hym · ⁊ he with me

     I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door for me, I'll go and dine with them, and them with me.

4. To beat against the breast.
5. To pulverise; to crush to bits.
6. (rare) To assault; to attack.

Conjugation

派生語

• knok

派生した語

• English: knock
  • → Dutch: knokken; nokken
• Scots: knock, tnock, knack
• Yola: knockt (preterite)

参照

• “knokken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.