forsake
要点見捨てる
意味
- 〈友など〉を見捨てる
- 〈習慣など〉をやめる,捨てる
例文
He could not forsake his friend in trouble.
彼は困っている友人を見捨てることは出来なかった。
I can't forsake a friend in trouble.
困っている友人を見捨てることはできない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”), from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). By surface analysis, for- + sake. Cognates include Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .