hair
要点毛、髪の毛
意味
- (人間・動物の1本の)毛;(植物・昆虫などの)毛
- 《集合的に》髪の毛,毛,毛髪;(動物の)体毛
- 《a~》1本の毛ほどの量(距離,程度),ごくわずか
例文
I liked your hair before you got straight bangs.
ぱっつんにする前の方がいいと思うけど。
Marie is drying her hair in front of the mirror.
マリーなら、鏡の前で髪を乾かしてるわ。
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age.
白髪のおかげで彼女は年よりふけて見える。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Cimbrian haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German and Low German Haar (“hair”), Luxembourgish Hoer (“hair”), Mòcheno hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (hor, “hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
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