heaven
要点天、空、神
意味
- 《通例複数形で》天,空
- (神・天使などが住む)天国,極楽
- 《H-》神(God)
- 《話》天国のような場所;非常な幸せ
例文
Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, please protect me.
天国にいらつしやる基督様。どうか私を御守り下さいまし。
Only he and the heavens know what he experienced.
彼が何を経験したかは、彼と天だけが知っている。
I won't see him again until we meet in heaven.
天国で会うまで彼には二度と会えません。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel),…