leap
要点ぴょんと飛ぶ、急に、す早く、動く、飛び越える
意味
- 《しばしば副詞[句]を伴って》ぴょんと飛ぶ,はねる,躍る
- 《副詞[句]を伴って》(飛ぶように)急に(す早く)動く,ぴょんと動く
- 〈人・動物などが〉…を飛び越える
- (…を)〈動物など〉に飛び越えさせる《+名+over(across)+名》
- 跳ぶこと,跳躍;《比喩(ひゆ)的に》飛躍,急変
- ひと跳びの距離
例文
A leap year has three hundred and sixty-six days.
うるう年は366日です。
Except for leap years, February has only 28 days.
うるう年を除いて、２月は２８日しかありません。
Quitting my office job was a leap in the dark.
清水の舞台から飛び降りたつもりで脱サラした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop. Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe…