riddle

• vt. 謎を解く；謎を与える...なぞを解く；...で満たす
• n. なぞなぞ；大まかなふるい；謎めいた人、物、事柄など。
• vi.
• n.(なぞなぞの)人名；(英)Riddle.

語源 readと同じ、読む、理解する、推測する、-le、小さな単語の接尾辞。語源 riddle, enigma.

riddle

riddle: [OE] English has two separate words riddle. The ‘puzzling’ sort of riddle is etymologically something you ‘read’. For it originated as a derivative of Old English r?dan, the ancestor of modern English read. One of its earlier meanings was ‘interpret’ – hence riddle. Riddle ‘sieve’ goes back to a prehistoric German khrid- ‘shake’, which also produced German dialect reiter ‘sieve’. It is also related to Latin crībrum ‘sieve’ and cernere ‘separate’ (source of English decree, discern, secret, etc).
=> read; certain, decree, discern, secret

riddle (n.1)

"A word game or joke, comprising a question or statement couched in deliberately puzzling terms, propounded for solving by the hearer/reader using clues embedded within that wording" [Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore], early 13c., from Old English r?dels "riddle; counsel; conjecture; imagination; discussion," common Germanic (Old Frisian riedsal "riddle," Old Saxon radisli, Middle Dutch raetsel, Dutch raadsel, Old High German radisle, German R?tsel "riddle").

The first element is from Proto-Germanic *redaz-, from PIE *re-dh-, from PIE *re(1)- "to reason, count" (cognates: Old English r?dan "to advise, counsel, read, guess;" see read (v.)). The ending is Old English noun suffix -els, the -s of which later was mistaken for a plural affix and stripped off. Meaning "anything which puzzles or perplexes" is from late 14c.

riddle (v.1)

"perforate with many holes," 1817 (implied in riddled), earlier "sift" (early 13c.), from Middle English ridelle "coarse sieve," from late Old English hriddel "sieve," altered by dissimilation from Old English hridder "sieve" (see riddle (n.2)).

riddle (n.2)

"coarse sieve," mid-14c., alteration of late Old English hriddel, dissimilated from hridder, from Proto-Germanic *hrida- (cognates: German Reiter), from PIE root *krei- "to sieve," and thus related to Latin cribrum "sieve, riddle," Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish, decide" (see crisis).

riddle (v.2)

"to pose as a riddle," 1570s, from riddle (n.1). Related: Riddled; riddler; riddling.

1. He was on a caravanning holiday.

彼は車で遊びに出かけた。

2.Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

ロシアはクネクネの中に隠された謎の物体である。

3.The riddle couldn 't be solved by the child.

このなぞなぞは子供には解けない。

4.He found out the riddle at last.

彼はついにこのなぞなぞを当てた。

5.Her disappearance is a complete riddle .

彼女の失踪は完全に謎である。