swim
要点泳ぐ、泳ぐこと
意味
- 泳ぐ,水泳をする
- (水上・空中などに)浮かぶ
- (水などの液体で)いっぱいになる,あふれる《+with+名》
(…に)浸る《+in+名》 - 〈物が〉ぐるぐる回るように見える;〈頭などが〉くらくらする
- 〈河など〉を泳いで渡る,〈ある距離〉を泳ぐ
- 《副詞[句]を伴って》〈人など〉を泳がせる;〈船〉を浮かせる
- 泳ぐこと,
例文
No matter what I do, I just can't learn to swim.
どうやっても泳げるようにならない。
It is possible for him to swim across the river.
彼がその川を泳いでわたるのは可能だ。
I could swim across the river when I was twelve.
１２歳のとき私はその川を泳いで渡ることができた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Nor…