shelf
要点たな
意味
- たな
- (がけの)岩だな;(海・川の)砂州,岩礁
例文
Accessories were laid out on the shelf for sale.
販売用に装飾品が棚に広げられた。
He is too short to get at the book on the shelf.
彼は背が低くて棚の本まで手が届かない。
Tom reached for the dictionary on the top shelf.
トムは棚の一番上にある辞書に手を伸ばした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).