mother（マザー）
要点母
意味
- 母
- 母親のような人
- 《the ~》(…の)源(みなもと),原因《+of+名》
- …を生む,の母親になる
- …を母のように世話する
- 酢母(酢の表面にできる薄皮)
例文
He had no time when his mother told him to work.
彼はお母さんが勉強するように言ったとき、時間がなかった。
Are you closer to your mother or to your father?
お父さんとお母さん、どちらの方が親しいですか？
I could see that my mother was in a lot of pain.
お母さんがとても痛がっているのが分かった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and matter. Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.
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