friend（フレンド）
意味
- 友人,友だち
- 味方,支持者
- 役に立つもの
- 《F-》フレンド派(Society of Friends)の人,クエーカー教徒(Quaker)
- 《丁重な呼びかけ》友よ
例文
He saved his friend at the risk of his own life.
彼は自分自身の命をかけて友人を救った。
My friend usually helps my son with his studies.
普段は友人が息子の勉強を見てくれます。
We went to see a movie with my friend yesterday.
昨日友人と映画を見に行った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“friend, loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd. See also Friday.
関連する単語
friendly friendship friendliness