miller
要点粉屋
意味
- 粉屋,製粉業者,水車屋
- 白い蛾(が)(体・羽に白い粉がふいている)
例文
Please give me your full name. "Tom Miller."
「お名前をフルネームでお願いします」「トム・ミラーです」
Dr. Miller wants you to wait for a while.
ミラー先生はあなたにしばらく待ってもらいたいと思っています。
Every miller draws water to his own mill.
水車小屋は皆自分の水車に水を引く。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English myllere, mellere, from earlier mylnere, possibly from an Old English *mylnere, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnārī (“miller”), equivalent to mill + -er; cf. also Late Latin molīnārius (“miller”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Muller, Dutch mulder, molenaar, German Low German Möller, German Müller, Müllner, Danish møller, Norwegian Bokmål møller, Norwegian Nynorsk mylnar, møllar, Swedish mjölnare, Icelandic mylnari. Compare also Middle English milward, mulward (“miller”), from Old English mylenweard (“miller”, literally “mill-keeper”) (> English Millward (surname)).