bradley
ブラッドリー
解説 Definition
Bradley は、英語圏で姓や男性名として使われる固有名です。人名として使う場合、文脈上の特定の人物を指します。
Bradley is an English masculine given name and surname. In ordinary sentences, it identifies a particular person, and the surrounding context shows which individual named Bradley is being discussed.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
人名・姓としては Bradley と語頭を大文字にし、meet Bradley、an email from Bradley のような場面で覚えます。語源は古英語の「広い」を表す要素と「森の空き地・草地」を表す要素の組み合わせです。現代語 broad と lea を手掛かりに、開けた広い草地を連想できます。
Remember Bradley first as a person’s name: you can meet Bradley, receive an email from Bradley, or see the name Bradley on a door. It therefore begins with a capital B. Its historical components also provide a reliable memory image. The first element is related to modern broad, while the second meant a woodland clearing or meadow and survives in the word lea and in names such as Leigh. Imagine a person standing in a broad, open meadow. This scene connects the spelling Bradley with its place-name origin without suggesting that modern speakers intend that literal meaning when using the name.
例文
The name Bradley is on the door.
ドアにはブラッドリーという名前があります。
I met Bradley at the station.
私は駅でブラッドリーに会いました。
The email from Bradley arrived this morning.
ブラッドリーからのメールが今朝届きました。
bradley の語源・成り立ち Etymology
Bradleyは英地名・姓に由来し、古英語 brad「広い」+ leah「森の空き地・草地」から成ります。関連語はbroadやLeigh。人名でも元は「広い草地」という風景描写なので、開けた土地を思い浮かべると腑に落ちます。
Bradley originated as an English place name and then became a surname and masculine given name. It comes from Old English elements represented by brād, “broad,” and lēah, “woodland clearing, meadow, or open land.” Its historical sense was therefore approximately “broad clearing” or “broad meadow.” The first element is related to modern broad, while the second also appears in English place names and in spellings such as Leigh.
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