stair
要点段、階段
意味
- (階段の一つの)段
- 《複数形で》階段
例文
Tom was the one who pushed Mary down the stairs.
メアリーを階段から突き落としたのはトムです。
He saw a horrible face at the top of the stairs.
彼は階段の上に恐ろしい顔を見た。
The old lady climbed the stairs with difficulty.
その老婦人はやっとの事で階段を上った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.