haven
英検準1級避難所・安息所（tax haven）
意味
- 安全な所,避難場所
- 《まれ》港
例文
I’ve got heaps of homework due today but haven’t even touched anything yet.
今日中にやらなきゃいけない宿題が山ほどあるのに、まだ全然手をつけていないよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), either from Proto-West Germanic *habanu or Old Norse hǫfn, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)).