ankle
要点足首
意味
- 足首,くるぶし
例文
The long black coat reached almost to his ankles.
丈の長いコートは、ほとんどくるぶしまで届いていた。
Tom broke his left ankle during a rugby match.
トムはラグビーの試合中に左足首を骨折した。
A sprained ankle disabled him from walking for a month.
足首のねんざで彼は一ヶ月歩けなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English ankel, ancle, ankyll, from Old English ancol (compare anclēow (“ankle”) > Modern English anclef, ancliff, ancley), from Proto-West Germanic *ankul, from Proto-Germanic *ankulaz (“ankle”); akin to Icelandic ökkla, ökli, Danish and Swedish ankel, Dutch enkel, enklaauw, German Enkel, Old Norse akka, Old Frisian anckel, and perhaps Old High German encha, ancha (“thigh, shin”), from the Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“ankle, joint”). Compare with Sanskrit अङ्ग (aṅga, “limb”), अङ्गुरि (aṅguri, “finger”), Latin angulus. Compare haunch and Greek prefix ἀγκυλο- (ankulo-, “joint, crooked, bent”). Doublet of angulus and angle.