本日 Voicy heldio にて「#1654. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (62-4) with Taku さん --- オンライン超精読会より」をお届けしました．一昨日，12月7日（日）の午前中にオンラインで開催した超精読会の様子を収録したものの一部です．
今回も前回に引き続き，ヘルメイトの Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）に進行役を務めていただき，さらにヘルメイト数名にもお立ち会いいただきました．おかげさまで，日曜日の朝から豊かで充実した時間を過ごすことができました．ありがとうございます．超精読会の本編だけで1時間半ほど，その後の振り返りでさらに1時間超という長丁場でした．今後 heldio/helwa で複数回に分けて配信していく予定です．
さて，今朝の配信回でカバーしているのは，B&C の第62節の後半の始まりとなる "But the church . . ." からの4文です．以下に，精読対象の英文を掲載します（Baugh and Cable, p. 82) ．
But the church also exercised a profound influence on the domestic life of the people. This is seen in the adoption of many words, such as the names of articles of clothing and household use: cap, sock, silk, purple, chest, mat, sack;6 words denoting foods, such as beet, caul (cabbage), lentil (OE lent), millet (OE mil), pear, radish, doe, oyster (OE ostre), lobster, mussel, to which we may add the noun cook;7 names of trees, plants, and herbs (often cultivated for their medicinal properties), such as box, pine,8 aloes, balsam , fennel, hyssop, lily, mallow, marshmallow, myrrh, rue, savory (OE sæperige), and the general word plant. A certain number of words having to do with education and learning reflect another aspect of the church's influence. Such are school, master, Latin (possibly an earlier borrowing), grammatic(al), verse, meter, gloss, and notary (a scribe).
6 Other words of this sort, which have not survived in Modern English, are cemes (shirt), swiftlere (slipper), sūtere (shoemaker), byden (tub, bushel), bytt (leather bottle), cēac (jug), læfel (cup), orc (pitcher), and strǣl (blanket, rug).
7 Cf. also OE cīepe (onion, ll. cēpa), nǣp (turnip; L. nāpus), and sigle (rye, V.L. sigale).
8 Also sæppe (spruce-fir) and mōrbēam (mulberry tree).
B&C読書会の過去回については「#5291. heldio の「英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む」シリーズが順調に進んでいます」 ([2023-10-22-1]) をご覧ください．今後もゆっくりペースですが，続けていきます．ぜひ本書を入手し，超精読にお付き合いいただければ．
・ Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013.