英単語

weirdの意味・使い方・発音

weird

英 [wɪəd] 美 [wɪrd]
  • adj.奇妙な; 不気味な; 超自然的な
  • n. (スコットランドの)運命; 予言。

語源


怪しい

PIE*wer,弯,转,纺织,词源同versus,花輪から。本来は人間の運命の糸を編む北欧神話の3人の女神を指し、奇妙な姉妹としても知られているが、3姉妹は伝説や文学では信じられないほど奇妙な魔女として描かれているため、奇妙な、奇妙なという意味の語源となった。

英語の語源


weird
weird: [OE] Originally, weird was a noun, meaning ‘fate, destiny’. Etymologically it denoted ‘that which comes about’: for it was derived from the same base which produced the now obsolete English verb worth ‘come to be, become’ (a relative of German werden ‘become’). It was used adjectivally in Middle English in the sense ‘having power to control fate’ (which is where the weird sisters who confronted Macbeth come in), but the modern sense ‘uncanny’ did not emerge until the early 19th century, inspired by, but taking semantic liberties with, Shakespeare’s use of the word.
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weird (adj.)
c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urer "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorean "to become"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.

例文


1. It felt weird going back to Liverpool.
リバプールに戻ってきたら、変な感じがした。

2.That first day was weird .
初日はちょっと変でした。

3.He 's different.He 's weird .
彼は変わっていて、少し変わっています。

4.The altered landscape looks unnatural and weird .
改造後の景観は不自然で、極めて奇妙に見える。

5. "She was weird ." — "How so?「
「彼女は少し変わっている」-「なぜそう言うのか」

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