sand
要点砂、名,
意味
- 砂
- 《複数形で》砂地,砂浜,砂漠
- 《複数形で》時刻,時間
- …を砂(紙やすり)で磨く《+down+名,+名+down》
- 〈道路など〉に砂をまく
例文
The separation of gold from sand is problematic.
砂から金をより分けるのは難問だ。
The bottle was filled with what looked like sand.
そのビンは砂のようにみえるので一杯だった。
Your scheme is like a house built on the sand.
君の計画は砂上の楼閣に過ぎないよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. See also North Frisian sun, Sön, sönj (“sand”), Saterland Frisian Sound (“sand”), West Frisian sân (“sand”), Dutch zand (“sand”), German and Luxembourgish Sand (“sand”), Yiddish זאַמד (zamd, “sand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sand (“sand”), Faroese and Icelandic sandur (“sand”), Latin sabulum (“sand, gravel”), Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos, “sand”), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “w…
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