drown
要点溺死、させる、名,、する
意味
- …を溺死(できし)させる
- (…で)…を水浸しにする,ずぶぬれにさせる《+名+in(with)+名》
- 〈大きな音が〉〈ほかの音〉をかき消す《+out+名,+名+out》
- (仕事・研究などに)〈自分〉を熱中させる,(酒などで)〈憂いなど〉を晴らす,紛らす《+名+in+名》
- 溺死(できし)する
例文
But for his timely rescue, I would have drowned.
彼の時を得た救助がなかったら、私は溺れていただろう。
I came near being drowned, trying to rescue a boy.
少年を助けようとしていて私は危うく溺れるところだった。
The drowning man called for help, but in vain.
溺れている人は、助けを求めたが無駄だった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin. The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *drūnian. Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ġedruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)). Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable", unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna.