gay
要点陽気な
意味
- 陽気な,愉快な,うきうきした
- はでな色の,華やかな
- 放蕩な,不身持ちの
- 《話》同性愛の,ホモの
例文
And if I were gay, would that be a crime?
それと俺がホモだとしたら、罪になるわけ？
Tom is either gay or bisexual, I think.
トムは多分ゲイかバイだと思う。
There's nothing wrong with being gay.
ゲイであっても何も悪くない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology. cognates and sense derivation Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fast, quick”), German jäh (“abrupt, sudden”).