joke
要点冗談、笑い話
意味
- 冗談,笑い話
- からかい,いたずら
- こっけいなもの,物笑いの種
- 冗談を言う;冗談で言う
例文
Mr Smith always begins his lectures with a joke.
スミス先生はいつも冗談から講義を始める。
They held their sides with laughter at his joke.
彼の冗談を聞いて彼は腹を抱えて笑っていた。
We couldn't help laughing at the teacher's joke.
先生の冗談に笑わずにいられなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.