goose
要点ガチョウ
意味
- ガチョウ;ガチョウの雌
- ガチョウの肉
- まぬけ,ばか[な女]
- 〈人〉のしりに指を突っ込む
例文
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
金の卵を生むガチョウを殺すな。
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
一方に当てはまることは他方にも当てはまる。
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
雌の鵞鳥のソースになるものは雄の鵞鳥のソースにもなる。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
PIE word *ǵʰh₂éns Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns Proto-Germanic *gans Old English gōs Middle English gos English goose From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Cognates Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).