shield
要点盾、かばうもの(人)、かばう
意味
- (昔,武士が戦場で用いた)盾(たて)
- (…に対して,…から)かばうもの(人),保護者(物)《+against(from)+名》
- 盾に似たもの(警官・刑事・保安官のバッジなど)
=escutcheon
…をかばう,保護する《+名+from+名》
例文
Look on both sides of the shield.
盾の両面を見よ。
He bought a shield and a sword.
彼は盾と剣を買った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”).