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/θʌm/ 標準 頻度 4518位

要点親指

意味

  1. 親指;(手袋などの)親指の部分
  2. 〈本のページ〉を親指でめくる
  3. 《話》〈ヒッチハイカーが〉〈便乗〉を親指を立てて頼む
  4. ヒッチハイクする

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Russian дюйм (djujm, “inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”).

出典: Wiktionary「thumb」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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