hound
要点猟犬
意味
- 猟犬;(特に)キツネ狩り犬
- 卑劣な男;嫌われもの
- (猟犬のように)…を追跡する
- 〈人〉にしつこく言う,を悩ます
例文
He runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds.
彼は、両方にいいように言う。
Spring over the ground like a hunting hound.
狩りをする犬のように地面を跳ねて。
The hound was in full chase of the bear.
猟犬は熊を必死になって追いかけていた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Doublet of canine. Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”). In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.