cub
意味
- (キツネ・クマ・ライオンなど)野獣の子
- (しつけの悪い)子ども,小僧
- 新米,見習い
- =cub scout
例文
The tiger cub looked like a large kitten.
トラの子は大きな子ネコのようだった。
You are doing well for a cub reporter.
駆け出しの新聞記者にしては腕がいい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, convex, arch, vault”). Related terms include cup (cf. cupboard), coffin, cove, etc, essentially “chamber”, thus cub maybe initially derived from the sense “den”, or maybe “womb”. A probable cognate is also found in North Germanic: dialectal Swedish kubbe, kybbe, köbbe, kibb, Danish kippe (“calf”). Also compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob. Originally, the meaning was specifically "young fox", in which sense it has largely replaced English whelp.
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