nessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 nesse (in placenames), from 古期英語 næs, from Proto-Germanic *nasją (“promontory; ness”); cognate with Middle Low German nes, Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs, Old Norse nes. Related to nose.

発音

• enPR: nĕs, IPA: /nɛs/
• 韻: -ɛs

名詞

ness (plural nesses)

1. (geography) A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in placenames.)
   • 1958, Eric Rücker Eddison, Zimiamvian Trilogy‎, volume 3, The Mezentian Gate, page 177:

     Velvraz Sebarm stands upon the lake, among orange-trees and pomegranates and almonds and peaches of the south, a mile north-west over the water from Zayana town, and two miles by land: an old castle built of honey-coloured marble at the tip of a long sickle-shaped ness that sweeps round southwards, with wild gardens running down in the rocks to the water’s edge, and behind the castle a wood of holm-oaks making a wind-break against the north.

派生語

関連する語

• Nesting

参考

• Nes
• Ness
• naze

参照

• “ness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• The Collins English Dictionary, Collins, London & Glasgow 1986

アナグラム

• sens, NSSE, ENSs, SNES, SE SN, ESNs, Sens., Sens

語源

From 中期英語 -nes, -nesse, from 古期英語 -nis, -nes, from Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, from Proto-Germanic *-inassuz.

This suffix was formed already in Proto-Germanic by false division of the final consonant *-n- of the preceding stem + the actual suffix *-assuz. The latter was in turn derived from an earlier *-at(s)-tuz, from the verbal suffix *-at-janą + the noun suffix *-þuz. Compare German -nis and Dutch -nis of the same origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /nəs/
  • (old-fashioned RP) IPA: /nɪs/
  • (obsolete or dialectal) IPA: /nɛs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /nəs/, [nɘs]
• (米国発音) IPA: /nəs/, /nɪs/, /nɛs/

接尾辞

-ness

1. Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".

   ‎calm + ‎-ness → ‎calmness

   ‎eerie + ‎-ness → ‎eeriness

   ‎kind + ‎-ness → ‎kindness

   ‎one + ‎-ness → ‎oneness

2. Appended to words of other parts of speech to form nouns (often nonce words or terms in philosophy) meaning the state/quality/measure of the idea represented by these words.

   ‎that + ‎-ness → ‎thatness

   ‎tree + ‎-ness → ‎treeness

   ‎thug + ‎-ness → ‎thugness

使用する際の注意点

• If an adjective ends in -y, then this changes to -i- when -ness is suffixed. This occurs both when the -y is the suffix -y (“having the quality of”), as in mess → messy → messiness (hence -y → -i-), but also in other cases, as in comely → comeliness. It does not, however, usually occur when the -y is part of the root, as in spry → spryness.
• Plurals are formed by adding -es, e.g. happiness → happinesses.

同意語

派生語

アナグラム

• sens, NSSE, ENSs, SNES, SE SN, ESNs, Sens., Sens

接尾辞

-ness

1. alternative form of -nes

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “-ness”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.