meadow
要点牧草地
意味
- 牧草地,草原
例文
The sheep were grazing in the meadow.
羊が牧草地で草をはんでいた。
The stream winds through the meadow.
その小川は牧草地の中を曲がりくねって流れている。
Cows are eating grass in the meadow.
牛が牧場で草を食べている。
語源
古英語mǣd「草地」の変化形から。刈り取る(mow)ための草地「牧草地」。
mow(草を刈る)と同じ語根。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).