nostril
意味
- 鼻孔
例文
Hold your breath and pinch your nostrils.
息を止めて鼻をつまみなさい。
There's a pea in my right nostril.
右の鼻に豆が入ってしまいました。
I have a facial boil. There's a painful lump at the back of one nostril.
面疔ができた。小鼻の奥に1個、痛い塊がある。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English nostrille, from Old English nosþyrel. Compare Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”), modern West Frisian noaster (“nostrill”). Compare also Middle Low German noster (“nostril”), from Proto-Germanic *nustriz (“nostril”). By surface analysis, nose + thirl (“hole”).