darling
要点最愛の、いとしい人
意味
- 最愛の,いとしい
- お気に入りの,大事な(favorite)
- 《話》《おもに女性用語》非常に美しい;かわいらしい
- いとしい人,最愛の人;お気に入り
例文
I call my sweetheart darling.
私は恋人を「ダーリン」と呼びます。
What are you doing, darling?
何をしているの、ダーリン？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from Middle English dereling, derelyng (“beloved person; beloved of God, devout Christian”), from Old English dīerling, dēorling (“favourite, darling; minion”), from Proto-West Germanic *diuriling, from Proto-Germanic *diurijalingaz, from *diurijaz (“beloved, dear; expensive”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“hot, warm; to burn”), or *dweh₂- (“distant, long; to remove, separate”)) + *-ilingaz (suffix forming (diminutive) nouns with the sense of ‘belonging to; coming from’). By surface analysis, dear + -ling (suffix meaning ‘immature; small’). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.