ache
要点痛みを感じる、痛み
意味
- (継続的に鈍く)〈人が〉痛みを感じる,〈身体が〉痛む,うずく
- 《話》切望する,心から願う
- 《しばしば複合語を作って》(継続的な鈍い)痛み,うずき
例文
I'm aching to tell this good news to my family.
このうれしい知らせを家族に知らせたくてたまらない。
This medicine will cure you of your stomach-ache.
この薬を飲めば腹痛は治まりますよ。
These pills will cure you of your stomach-ache.
これらの錠剤を飲めば腹痛は治るでしょう。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Inherited from Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), traditionally explained as from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂égos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”). The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g.