timber
要点材木
意味
- (また《米》lumber)(建築・木工用の)材木
- (特に材木用の)森林[地];《集合的に》立ち木
- 梁;(船の)助材
- 素質,性格
- …を木材で建てる(支える)
- 木が倒れるぞ(伐採で注意をうながすかけ声)
例文
Large amounts of timber are used in paper making.
大量の材木が紙の製造に使われている。
Canada abounds in timber.
カナダは木材に富む。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“ma…