acorn
意味
- どんぐり(カシ・ナラなどの実)
例文
The woodpecker is gathering acorns for the winter.
啄木鳥は、冬に向けてドングリを集めています。
From a small acorn grows a tall oak tree.
小さなドングリから、背の高いオークが育ちます。
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
カシの大樹も小さなドングリから育つ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognates Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian…
辞書順で近い単語
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