reet
正しい
解説 Definition
イギリスの方言で「正しい」「了解」という意味の非標準的な表現。また「素晴らしい」「優れている」という俗語的な用法もある。
Reet is a nonstandard northern English dialect form used for right, meaning correct, acceptable, or all right. It can also signal agreement or acknowledgment, and in expressions such as reet good it may serve as an intensifier conveying “very” or “really.”
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
reet はイングランド北部、特にヨークシャーなどで聞かれる right の方言形と結び付ける。Is that reet? なら「それでいい？」、Reet, I’ll go. なら「了解」、a reet good idea では強調の「本当に良い」。標準的な文章では right、all right、really などを使い、地域色のある会話表現として覚える。
Link reet with standard English right: the two share both historical ancestry and several present-day meanings. In a northern English dialect exchange, Is that reet with you? asks whether something is acceptable, while Reet, I’ll see you later signals agreement like right or all right. Before an adjective, as in a reet good idea, it can intensify the description and mean really or very. Because it is regionally marked and nonstandard, reserve it for dialectal speech or writing; use right, all right, or really in neutral contexts.
例文
Is that reet with you? (British dialect)
それでいいですか？（イギリス方言）
That's a reet good idea, mate.
それは本当に良い考えだね。
Reet, I'll see you later then.
了解、また後でね。
reet の類義語・関連語
reet の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語riht（正しい・まっすぐ）に由来するイングランド北部（ヨークシャー）の方言形。標準英語のrightと同根で、ゲルマン祖語*rehtazに遡る。関連語：right（正しい）、righteous（正義の）。北部方言では母音変化によりreetの形が残った。
Reet is a northern English dialectal form historically related to standard right. Both descend from Old English riht, meaning “straight,” “correct,” or “just,” and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz. Regional sound development produced spellings that represent a long vowel differently from the standard form. The dialect word retained uses connected with correctness and acceptability and also developed conversational functions of acknowledgment and emphasis, especially in areas such as Yorkshire.
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