loft
意味
- 屋根裏
- (馬屋の)干し草置き場
- (教会・講堂の)上階
- (クリケット・ゴルフで)〈ボール〉を高く打ち上げる
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).