lofeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• loff, loave

名詞

lofe (plural lofes)

1. (West Midlands and Northern England) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.
   • 1869, Alexander Craig Gibson, The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent‎, page 212:

     "Yance I hed t' lofe an' I'd luck to say no, an' I niver hed t' lofe ageàn."—Said by an elderly spinster.

語源 2

Inherited from 中期英語 loven (“to praise, set a price on”), from 古期英語 lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value, set a price on”), from Proto-West Germanic *lobōn, from Proto-Germanic *lubōną (“to praise, vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, like”).

Cognate with Scots loave (“to offer at a price”), North Frisian lowe (“to vow, swear”), Dutch loven (“to praise, bless, commend”), German loben (“to praise, laud, commend”), Icelandic lofa (“to promise, praise, allow”).

別の表記

• loff, loave, love

動詞

lofe (third-person singular simple present lofes, present participle lofing, simple past and past participle lofed)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal or obsolete) To praise; commend.
2. (transitive, West Midlands and Northern England) To offer; offer at a price; expose for sale.
   • 1899, William Dickinson, Edward William Prevost, Simon Dickson Brown, A Glossary of the Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland‎, page 202:

     Ah'd lofed him it an' he wadn't tak 't.

関連する語

参照

• Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 640

アナグラム

• floe

名詞

lofe

1. dative singular of lof

名詞

lōfe

1. dative singular of lōf

名詞

lofe

1. Alternative spelling of lof
   • c. 1175, “Dominica in Quadragessima”, in Algernon Ikey Belfour, editor, Twelfth Century Homilies in MS Bodley 343‎, published 1909, page 48, lines 12–14:

     Æt þam ytemestan, broðor mine, hér æfter fyliȝæð þeo mongung be þare ælmessæn lofe.

     In conclusion, my brethren, after this comes an exhortation in praise of charity.

語源 2

名詞

lofe

1. Alternative form of love (“love”)

語源 3

動詞

lofe

1. Alternative form of loven (“to love”)