ledge
意味
- (建物の壁から突き出ている)棚[状のもの]
- (がけ・絶壁から突き出ている)岩棚
岩礁
例文
The fall from the ledge shattered his leg.
岩棚から落ちて彼は足を折った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”).