stoundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from 古期英語 stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).

Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare 中期英語 stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.

別の表記

• stund, stoind, stoond, stoon, stoun, stuind (Scotland)

名詞

stound (plural stounds)

1. (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.
   • 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):

     What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound

2. (obsolete) A tide, season.
3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.

   Synonyms: span; see also Thesaurus:period

   • 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:

     He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.

4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.

   Synonyms: jiffy, second; see also Thesaurus:moment

   Listen to me a little stound.

   • 1883 [a. 1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in Henry Morley, editor, Cassell's Library of English Literature‎, volume 1, page 48:

     And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.

5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
   • 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:

     No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].

7. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
   • 1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:

     How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds.

   • 1843, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the intended mutiny on board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the high seas:

     A colt is made of three stounds, I think; it is lighter, much, than the cat. The punishment with the colt is always given without stripping, over the clothes.

8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
   • 1893, The Homoeopathic World:

     Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.

   • 1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith:

     […] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!

9. Astonishment; amazement.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Lightly he started up out of that stound.

   • 1720, John Gay, “Prologue”, in Poems on Several Occasions:

     we stood as in a stound, / And wet with tears, like dew, the ground

派生語

動詞

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 93-95:

     Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
     Retraction follow close upon the heels
     Of that late stounding insult […]

2. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
3. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
   • 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county:

     Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

語源 2

From 中期英語 stounden, stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), from 古期英語 *stundian, from Proto-West Germanic *stundōn, from Proto-Germanic *stundōną. Cognate with German stunden (“to defer payment, give time to pay”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.

動詞

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.

名詞

stound (plural stounds)

1. (UK dialectal) A stand; a stop.

語源 3

From 中期英語 stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from 古期英語 stond (“a stand”). Compare stand.

名詞

stound (plural stounds)

1. A receptacle for holding small beer.
   • 1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54:

     Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]

アナグラム

• Dutson, donuts, stunod

語源

From 古期英語 stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”).

名詞

stound

1. A while: a short span of time.
2. Time, especially the proper time for doing something:
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3992-3994:

     And on a day it happed, in a stounde,
     Sik lay the maunciple on a maladye;
     Men wenden wisly that he sholde dye.

     And on one day it happened, at a time,
     The manciple lay sick with a malady;
     People thought indeed that he should die.

   1. A moment, a chance, an opportunity.
   2. A season of the year.
   3. A canonical hour: one of the 3-hour divisions of the day, (Christianity) its divine office.
   4. An hour: one of the 24 divisions of the day.

派生した語

• English: stound
• Scots: stound

副詞

stound

1. A while: for a short span of time.

参照

• "stǒund(e" in the Middle English Dictionary