sheep
意味
- 羊
- 気の弱い人,人に引きずられやすい人
例文
I caught sight of a flock of sheep in the forest.
森で羊の群れを見ました。
These clouds look like a flock of white sheep.
これらの雲は白い羊の群れのように見える。
Mrs. Jones counts sheep every night to go to sleep.
ジョーンズさんは、眠れるように毎晩ひつじの数をかぞえているんだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą, of unknown origin. Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.