freckle
意味
- そばかす
しみ - …にそばかす(しみ)を生じさせる
- そばかす(しみ)ができる
例文
Mary has freckles and red hair.
メアリーはそばかすがあって、赤い髪をしてるよ。
Tom has red hair and freckles.
トムは赤い髪をしてて、そばかすがあります。
Tom doesn't have any freckles.
トムは、そばかすがないね。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Albanian fruth (“measles”) * Old English sprecel