ridge
要点山の背
意味
- 山の背,尾根
- (動物の)背,背すじ;(畑などの)うね,あぜ
- (一般に,うねのような)隆起
- 〈屋根〉にむねをつける;〈畑など〉にうねをたてる
例文
Is this the bus for Park Ridge?
このバスは、パークリッジ行きですか。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).