thane
英 [θeɪn]
- n. 大柄な従者；領主
- n.(Thane)人名;(英)Thane;(ビルマ語)Dan
英語の語源
- thane (n.)
- Old English tegn "military follower, one who holds lands in exchange for military service," also "vassal, retainer, attendant," from Proto-Germanic *thegnas (cognates: Old Saxon thegan "follower, warrior, boy," Old Norse tegn "thane, freeman," Old High German thegan, German Degen "thane, warrior, hero"), from PIE *tek-no- (cognates: Sanskrit takman "descendant, child," Greek teknon "child"), from root *tek- "to beget, give birth to" (cognates: Greek tekos "child, the young of animals," tokos "childbirth, offspring, produce of money, interest"). Also used in Old English for "disciple of Christ." Specific sense of "man who ranks between an earl and a freeman" is late 15c.
The modern spelling is from Scottish, where early 13c. it came to mean "chief of a clan, king's baron," and it has predominated in English probably due to the influence of "Macbeth;" normal orthographic changes from Old English eegn would have produced Modern English *thain. Some historians now use thegn to distinguish Anglo-Saxon thanes from Scottish thanes.
例文
- 1. There lived a great thane ，or lord，called Macbeth.
- 立派なジャズ、あるいは貴族、マクベスという名前がある。
- 2.They were empowered by the King to confer upon Macbeth the dignity of thane of Cawdor.
- 彼らは国王の命令でマクベスをコット卿に封じた。
- 3.Macbeth had entertained a jealousy of Macduff，the thane of Fife.
- マクベスはマクデブ-ファーブ地区の大郷紳士に嫉妬心を抱いていた。
- 4.Gordon:It is worse thane -mail spam.
- モリー：そう、迷惑メールはうんざりだ。
- 5.We have thane up some more flexible practice In foreign trade.this will benefit us both.
- 私たちは対外貿易において比較的柔軟なやり方を取っている。これはお互いに有利になります。