knife
要点ナイフ
意味
- ナイフ,小刀;包丁;短刀
- (機械などの)刃
- …をナイフ(短刀)で切る(刺す)
- (ナイフで)切るように進む
例文
I need a spoon, a fork, and a knife. Thank you.
スプーンとフォークとナイフが要る。どうも。
Tom isn't holding a knife. He's holding a gun.
トムはナイフじゃなくて、銃を持ってるよ。
The robber tried to plunge the knife into the boy.
その泥棒は少年にナイフを突きつけようとした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel. * The verb is first attested in 1865. The variant knive is first attested in 1733.