belly
要点腹、名,
意味
- 腹,腹部(abdomen)
- 胃
- (物の)内側,内部(inside)
- ふくれた部分,胴
- 前面[部],下面[部]
- …をふくらませる《+out+名,+名+out》
- ふくらむ《+out》
例文
The belly is not filled with fair words.
話では腹は張らぬ。
Do you remember the time you were in your mother's belly?
お母さんのお腹の中にいたときのこと覚えてる?
The newspaper said that XYZ oil company went belly-up today.
新聞によるとXYZオイルは今日倒産したらしい。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows. For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).