hearth
要点炉床
意味
- 炉床(暖炉の前に突き出した石やれんがの床)
- (家庭生活の象徴としての)炉辺,家庭
- 火床(ほど)(溶鉱炉などの下部で溶けた金属を集める所)
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd. First attested in the Old English period. The modern spelling is from an Middle English/Early Modern English /hɛːrθ/, from earlier /heːrθ/, levelled from inflected forms with /rð/ where the vowel would have been lengthened. The reflex of this pronunciation was preserved in obsolete dialectal /ˈhɜɹθ/.