horse
要点馬
意味
- 馬,(特に成長した)雄馬
- =vaulting horse
- (物を載せたり,支えたりする)脚付き枠(台など),掛け台,のこひき台,きゃたつ
- 《集合的に;複数扱い》騎兵,騎兵隊
- 〈人〉を馬に乗せる;〈馬車〉にをつける
例文
This is the first time that I've ridden a horse.
馬に乗るのは、これが初めてです。
Don't you think my horse ought to win the Derby?
私の馬がダービーに勝つとは思いませんか。
The ground beef was found to contain horse meat.
牛ミンチに馬肉が混入しているのが見つかりました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus. Cognates Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding…
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