bike(バイク)
意味
- =bicycle
例文
He thought it foolish of me to go there by bike.
彼は私が自転車でそこに行くなんてばかげていると思った。
Her old bike squeaked as she rode down the hill.
坂を下りるときに彼女のおんぼろ自転車はキーキー音を立てた。
On entering the barn, he found a missing bike.
納屋に入るやいなや、彼はなくなった自転車を見つけた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
An alternative explanation is that it was parsed to bic(ycle) but since speakers are aware of a general /k/~/s/ alternation (as in electric ~ electricity etc.), the softened /s/ was restored to a default /k/ when the “ending” -ycle was dropped. Similar cases are merc /mɜɹk/, spec /spɛk/ for mercenary, specify. It seems unlikely, however, that this process is purely phonological and not at least partially based on the spelling ⟨c⟩.