coke
意味
- (燃料の)コークス
- 〈石炭〉をコークスにする
- 《しばしばC-》Coca Colaの略称
- 《俗》=cocaine
例文
Can I have two hamburgers and a coke, please?
ハンバーガー２つとコーラを下さい。
More than one bottle of coke was consumed.
コーラが１びん以上飲まれた。
When it comes to advertising, Coke is ahead of the game.
広告に関してはコークの方が優位にたっている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).