shrill
要点甲高い
意味
- (声・音が)甲高い,金切り声の
- 甲高い音(声)を出す
- …を甲高い声で言う
例文
All at once she began to shout in a shrill voice.
突然彼女は甲高い声で叫び出した。
The child's shout was indeed shrill.
子供の叫び声はとてもかん高かった。
All at once, I heard a shrill cry.
突然鋭い叫び声が聞こえた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative. The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”) and sċill (“shell”) existed. The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”).