lung
要点肺
意味
- 《しばしば複数形で》肺,肺臓
例文
Is there a link between smoking and lung cancer?
喫煙と肺ガンには関連があるのでしょうか？
Oxygen is taken into our lungs when we breathe.
酸素は私たちが呼吸すると肺の中に取り込まれる。
Leaves are to plants what lungs are to animals.
葉の植物に対する関係は肺の動物に対する関係と同じである。
語源
「軽い器官」を意味した古い語から。「肺」。
light（軽い）と同じ語源。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).