peg
要点くぎ、せん、くい、木くぎ、でとめる
意味
- (木などの,おもに木工に用いる)くぎ,掛けくぎ;(たるなどの)せん;(テントなどの)くい
- (弦楽器の弦をしめる)ねじ
- 《話》(評価などの)段階)degree)
- (議論などの)きっかけ,口実
- 《話》(おもに野球で)送球
- …を木くぎ(くい)でとめる,に木くぎ(木くいを打つ《+名+down,+down+名》
- 〈物価・賃金など〉を抑える,安定させる
- 《話》(おもに野球で〈ボール〉を投げる
- 《話》…を認める,見定める
例文
"Mum, where are the clothes pegs?" "On the table."
「母さん、洗濯ばさみは？」「テーブルの上」
I had him pegged for a one-rounder at most.
彼が１ラウンドもてば上々だと僕は思っていたよ。
The wooden pieces are fastened with a peg.
木片は１本の留め木で留めてある。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic.