Un-feor[r]

古英語辞典によると:

un-feor[r]

ad I. marking position, at no great distance off, (1) where the point from which the distance is measured is given by an adverb :-- Ðǽr wæs unfeorr (-feor, MS. A.) án swýna heord erat non longe ab illis grex porcorum, Mt. Kmbl. 8, 30. Ðá geseah hé deófol ðǽr unfeor standan, Blickl. Homl. 227, 24. (2) with dative :-- Ðá hé wæs unfeor ðam húse cum non longe esset a domo, Lk. Skt. 7, 6. Ðæt is unfeor ðære byrig Neapoli quod est non longe a Neapoli, Bd. 4, 1; S. 563, 30: Cd. Th. 125, 22; Gen. 2083. Unfeor herge haud procul a delubro, Hpt. Gl. 493, 36. (3) with dative and adverb :-- Se rinc him ðǽr rom geseah unfeor þanon standan, Cd. Th. 177, 9; Gen. 2927. (4) with preposition :-- Hí wǽron unfeor fram lande non longe erant a terra, Jn. Skt. 21, 8. Fram ðam mynstre unfeor wæs ðære abbudissan mynster a quo (monasterio) non longe, illa monasterium habebat, Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 1. (5) where the point from which distance is measured is implied :-- Wutað ðætte unfeorr sié scitote quod in proximo sit, Mk. Skt. Lind. 13, 29. II. with verbs of motion, (to) no great distance :-- Hig wendan, unfeorr út on Wealas they marched a short distance into Wales, Chr. 1055; Erl. 190, 12. un-feorr

関連語: Not far off.