Hú-meta

古英語辞典によると:

hú-meta

Add: I. in direct questions. (1) in what way?, by what means? :-- Húmeta wát God? quomodo scit Deus?, Ps. Spl. 72, 11. (2) with what reason or right :-- Húmeta cwyst þú tó þínum bréðer?, Mt. 7, 4. (3) how is it that?, why? :-- Gif heó turniende is, húmeta ne fealð heó? si volubile est, cur non cadat?, Angl. vii. 12, 109. Húmeta wénde Adam ꝥ hé mihte hine behýdan fram Godes gesihðe? unde a Domini praesentia abscondi posse putabat?, 26, 239. II. in indirect questions. (1) qualifying a verb, (a) cf. I. 1 :-- Hé áxodon þá weardmenn húmeta se án wǽre tó þám hálgum geþeód?, Hml. S. 11, 236. (b) Cf. I. 2 :-- Hé áxode þá weardmen húmeta hí dorston hí swá wel fédan, Hml. S. 37, 61. (2) with ellipsis of the rest of the rest of the clause introduced by how :-- Wé hérdon ꝥ sum sunu ofslóge his fæder, ic nát húmeta, búton wé witon ꝥ hit unmennisclic dǽd wæs, Bt. 31, 1; F. 112, 16.

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