flax
意味
- 亜麻
- 亜麻の繊維(リンネルがつくられる)
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.