own
要点自分自身の、自分自身のもの、所有する、認める
意味
- 自分自身の,それ自身の,特有の
- 自分自身のもの,わがもの
- …を所有する,持つ
- …を認める,白状する;…を自分のものと認める
- (…を)白状する,告白する《+up to+名(doing)》
- (…を)認める《+to+名》
例文
You had better see the cloth with your own eyes.
その生地を自分の目で見た方がいい。
You can only let the matter take its own course.
その件は成り行きに任せるしかないな。
It's nice if a child can have a room of his own.
子供が自分の部屋を持てればそれでいいのです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English oun, owen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”). Doublet of eigen-. Cognates Cognate with Scots ain, awin, awn, ayn (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), West Frisian, Dutch, and German eigen (“own”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish egen (“own”), Faroese egin (“own”), Icelandic eigin, eiginn (“own”), Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”); also Ossetian исын (isyn, “to take”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B aik- (“to know, recognize”), Sanskrit ईश (īśa, “owning, possessing”).