snore
意味
- いびきをかく
- いびき
例文
Is snoring less likely if you sleep on your side?
横向きに寝ると「いびき」をかきにくい?
Snoring and excessive smoking are indeed related.
いびきとたばこの吸い過ぎは実際に関連がある。
She's faking sleep. That's why she's not snoring.
彼女は寝たふりをしているからいびきをかいていないんだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more).