ear
要点耳、聴覚
意味
- 耳
- 《単数形で》聴覚,聴力,音感
- 《単数形で》じっと聞くこと,傾聴
- 耳の形をした物
- (麦・とうもろこしなどの)穂
例文
The room was so noisy that Tom covered his ears.
部屋がとてもうるさかったので、トムは耳をふさいだ。
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
雌豚の耳から絹の財布は作れない。
She tried again to fix the earring into her ear.
彼女は耳にイヤリングを固定しようとした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English eare, eere, ere, eyr, ire, yere, ȝhere, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (“ear”), from *h₂ew- (“to perceive”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian uaar, uar, uur (“ear”), Saterland Frisian Oor (“ear”), West Frisian ear (“ear”), Alemannic German Oor (“ear”), Central Franconian Uhr (“ear”), Dutch oor (“ear”), German Ohr (“ear”), Low German Ohr, Oor, Or, our, Ur (“ear”), Luxembourgish Ouer (“ear”), Vilamovian ür (“ear”), Yiddish אויער (oyer, “ear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre (“ear”), Elfdalian ära (“ear”), Faroese oyra (“ear”), Icelandic eyra…
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