boat
要点小型の船
意味
- 小型の船,小舟,ボート
- 《話》(大小に関係なく一般に)船,汽船
- 舟形の容器
- 舟に乗る
- …を舟で運ぶ
例文
I escaped from the sinking boat with difficulty.
私はやっとのことで沈んでいく船から脱出した。
The boat was seen to draw apart from the others.
そのボートはほかから離れていくのが見えた。
She was able to cross the Pacific Ocean by boat.
彼女は船で太平洋横断に成功した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Faroese and Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.