barefoot
意味
- はだしの,裸足の
- はだしで,素足で
例文
He was so startled that he ran outside barefoot.
彼はびっくりして裸足で外に飛び出した。
I once saw a man walk barefoot over hot coals.
熱い石炭の上を裸足で歩く男を見たことがある。
Tom isn't accustomed to walking barefooted.
トムは裸足で歩くのに慣れていない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).