mouth
要点口
意味
- (人・動物の物を食べたり,音を発する)口,口腔
- (口に似た)開口部;(袋・びんなどの)口,(銅穴・峡谷などの)入り口;河口,港口
- …を大げさに口を動かし気どってしゃべる
- 〈信じていないこと・理解していないこと〉を口にする
- …を口に入れる,かむ,なめる
例文
It is bad manners to speak with your mouth full.
口に物をほおばってしゃべるのは不作法だ。
Donna was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
ドナは金持ちの家に生まれた。
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man.
恒産なき者、恒心なし。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáo…