hornet
意味
- スズメバチ
例文
A swarm of hornets attacked the children.
雀蜂の群れが子供達を襲った。
A cloud of hornets set at the children.
雀蜂の群れが子供達を襲った。
Wasps and hornets are flying about.
蜂が飛び回る。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hurznutō (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin crābrō (“hornet”), Lithuanian širšė (“wasp”), Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (whence Old Church Slavonic сръшень (srŭšenĭ, “hornet”) and many others), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).