bough
要点大枝
意味
- (木の)大枝
例文
The boughs of the large tree overhung the pond.
その巨木の枝が池に覆いかぶさっていた。
The bough bent under the weight of the snow.
枝は雪の重みで曲がった。
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
実るほど頭の下がる稲穂かな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
PIE word *bʰeh₂ǵʰús From Middle English bough (“branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring”) [and other forms], from Old English bōg, bōh (“tree bough or branch; arm; shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“shoulder; upper arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bouch, West Frisian boech, Dutch boeg, German Low German Boog, German Bug, Danish bov, Icelandic bógur, and distantly with Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pêkhus, “forearm, cubit, etc.”).