sneeze
意味
- くしゃみ
- くしゃみをする
例文
Our conversation was interrupted by his sneezes.
彼のくしゃみで私たちの会話が中断した。
I can't help sneezing, I caught a cold yesterday.
私はくしゃみをせずにはいられない、きのうかぜをひいたんだ。
Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.
咳、くしゃみ、あくびをする時は口を手で隠しなさい。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”). Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze.