herring
意味
- ニシン
例文
What she liked best was herring roe.
彼女が最も気に入ったのは数の子でした。
The police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.
警察が追っていたのは替え玉で、その間に真犯人を逃してしまった。
In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.
相手の注意をそらすため、我々は本題とは関係のない話をもちだした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) + -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”), Bavarian Haring (“herring”). Late Latin haringus (whence French hareng, etc.) is borrowed from Germanic.