aunt
要点おば
意味
- おば
- おばさん(年長の婦人に対する敬称)
例文
My aunt wears glasses when she reads the papers.
私の伯母は書類を読むときにメガネをかけます。
Kevin was brought up by his aunt in the country.
ケビンはいなかの叔母の手で育てられた。
My aunt won an all-expenses-paid tour of Hawaii.
私の伯母は、無料ハワイ旅行に当たった。
語源
ラテン語amita「父の姉妹」から。のちに父母どちらの姉妹も指すようになり「おば」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)). Notes on pronunciation and spelling The digraph ⟨au⟩ representing /æ ~ ɑː/ (rather than /ɔː/) is irregular. It likely reflects a development of Middle English /au̯/ to [aː~æː] before /m n/ in some varieties of Early Modern English, which later came to be identified with either /æ/ or [æː] from pre-fricative lengthening (in the latter case, creating a phoneme /æː/; this is the basis of the bath lexical set).