dwell
要点住む
意味
- (ある場所に)住む,居住する《+in(at)+名》
- (ある状態などに)長くとどまる
例文
I will not dwell any longer upon this subject.
これ以上この問題は論じない。
She dwelled on the matter for a long time.
彼女は長い間その件を考えた。
Don't dwell too much upon the subject.
その問題についてあまり詳しく論じないで下さい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).