hover
意味
- 〈鳥・ヘリコプターなどが〉空に浮かぶ;(…の上を)舞う《+about(above, over)+名》
- 〈人などが〉(…の周辺を)うろつく,(…に)つきまとう《+about(around, near)+名》
- (…の間の)さまよう,ぐらつく《+between+名》
例文
A strong smell of marijuana hovered in the air.
空気中には、大麻の強烈な臭いが漂っていた。
The temperature of the human body hovers around 37°C.
人間の体温は37度付近で上下している。
She hovers over that child like a hen with one chick.
彼女はその子につきまとって、うるさく世話を焼く。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb.