toy
要点おもちゃ
意味
- おもちゃ,玩具
- 小さくてちゃちな物
- 《名詞の前にのみ用いて》
- おもちゃの,愛玩用の
- (…を)いじくり回す,もてあそぶ《+with+名(doing)》
例文
She beat off a big snake with a plastic toy bat.
彼女はプラスチックの玩具のバットで大きな蛇をたたき出した。
The parents try to amuse their baby with a toy.
両親は赤ん坊をおもちゃであやそうとした。
A boy with a toy sword was playing by himself.
おもちゃの剣を持った少年が、一人で遊んでいた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.