kite
要点トビ、たこ
意味
- トビ(ワシタカ科の猛鳥)
- たこ(凧)
例文
On Sunday we were on the beach flying a kite.
日曜日に私たちは浜辺で凧を飛ばしていた。
Let's go to the field and fly kites, what do you say?
野原へ凧をあげに行きませんか。
The kite soared upwards with the swiftness of a bird.
凧は鳥のような速さで空に舞い上がった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *kūt (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot. Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird. The verb is derived from the noun.