wyrmとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wɜːm/
• (米国発音) enPR: wûrm, IPA: /wɝm/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)m
• Homophone: worm

名詞

wyrm (plural wyrms)

1. (mythology, fantasy) A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
   1. A sea serpent.

参考

• Jörmungandr
• sea serpent
• worm

語源

From Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm, serpent, snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”). Cognate with Old Frisian wirm, Old Saxon wurm, Old High German wurm, Old Norse ormr, and Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃 (waurms). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian varmas (“midge”), Old East Slavic вермие (vermije, “locusts, worms”), and Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos, “earthworm”).

発音

• IPA: /wyrm/, [wyrˠm]

名詞

wyrm m

1. any crawling animal, especially:
   1. worm
   2. maggot, grub
   3. insect
   • Exeter Book, riddle 40

     Hefiġere iċ eom micle þonne sē hāra stān
     oþþe unlȳtel lēades clympre,
     lēohtre iċ eom micle þonne þēs lȳtla wyrm
     þe hēr on flōde gǣð fōtum dryġe.

     I am much heavier than the gray stone
     or an un-little clump of lead,
     I am much lighter than this little bug
     that walks here on the water with dry feet

   1. reptile, especially a snake
      • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

        ...for þon hit is nǣdrena ġecynd þæt heora mǣġen ⁊ hiera fēþe bið on heora ribbum swā ōþerra crēopendra wyrma bið on heora fōtum.

        ...for it is the class of snakes whose movement is on their ribs, just as the motion of other creeping reptiles is with their feet.

   2. dragon

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: worm, werm, wirm, worme, wrim, wurm, wyrm, wyrme
  • English: worm
  • Scots: worm, wirm
• → English: wyrm

参照

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

• The Western Dragon