dog（ドッグ）
意味
- 犬
- 雄犬;イヌ科の動物(特にイタチ・オオカミ・カワウソ)の雄
- 《話》《形容詞を伴って》やつ
- 《話》くだらない男,下劣なやつ
- 《米俗》粗悪な物,くだらない物
- つかみ道具(氷づかみ,掛けかぎなど)
- 《the dogs》《英》競犬
- (犬のように)…の後をつける,に付きまとう
例文
This is the strongest dog that I have ever seen.
これは私が今までに見たうちで一番強い犬だ。
He called out not only to me but also to my dog.
彼は私ばかりではなく私の犬にも大声で呼びかけた。
My sister took care of the dog while I was away.
私が留守の間、姉が犬の世話をしてくれた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin. The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen.
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