こらえきれず / なりえます / やってみましょう / わ / 虫よ / 放り投げる

[eeky]

Hi,


1. シェーマス・フィネガンはこらえきれずにプッと噴き出した。

Is こらえきれず = 堪え + 切れず (neg. potential of 切る)?


2. 「連中は厄介で危険な小悪魔になりえますぞ！」

なりえます = なり (成り) + 得ます, yes?


3. 「君たちがピクシーをどう扱うかやってみましょう！」

Is 君たち (as opposed to the speaker) the subject of やって?


4. インク瓶を引っつかみ、教室中にインクを振り撒くわ、本やノートを引き裂くわ、壁から写真を引っぺがすわ、・・・

I'm a bit puzzled by these わ's. I know わ as feminine emphasis, but what is it here? This is narrative text, not anyone's speech.


5. 虫よ去れ！

I assume that 去れ is imperative of 去る, but what is 虫よ? Could it just be よ for emphasis? Or have I split the phrase incorrectly?


6. 放り投げる

I gather that this is pronounced ほうりなげる which puzzles me a little. Is 放り a rare case of "on" reading with okurigana?

 

[Toritoribe]

1) 2)
Yes.

3)
From the context, yes. Grammatically, the speaker can be the subject, just like "I'll try like the way you do. / I'll show you the way you do."

4)

わ
［終助］活用語の終止形に付く。
２ 驚き・感動・詠嘆の意を表す。「まあ、きれいだ―」「水は出ない―、電気は止まる―で、さんざんな目にあった」「散る―散る―、まるで木の葉の乱舞だ」

わ［終助］の意味 - 国語辞書 - goo辞書

～するわ、…するわ is used when listing actions/events, often of negative nuance.
e.g.
隣の犬は噛むわ吠えるわで手に負えない。

5)
よ is for calling.

よ
［間助］文中の種々の語に付く。
１ 呼びかけの意を表す。「おおい、雲―」「田中君―、手をかしてくれないか」

よ［終助間助格助］の意味 - 国語辞書 - goo辞書

6)
Yeah, "on'yomi + suru/su/zu" is common, but "on'yomi + ru" would be rare. Although this type of verbs are relatively broadly used in slangy expressions.
e.g.
事故る（＝事故を起こす）
愚痴る（＝愚痴を言う）
サボる（＝ずる休みする "to play truant"）
ミスる（＝失敗する）
(As in the dictionary, the last two examples are from the foreign words "sabotage" and "miss", respectively.)

 

[eeky]

Thanks, so in (5) is the speaker addressing the addressee (who is a pixie) as 虫, as an insult?

 

[Toritoribe]

ピクシー虫 is a single word. The speaker (=Lockhart) called pixie "pixie bug" as if they were a bug (treating as if they were a bug).

 

[eeky]

Oh I see, thanks.

 

[eeky]

And 虫 in this case would have connotations of a nuisance/pest or inferior type of creature, would it?

 

[Toritoribe]

Exactly.