uncle
要点おじ
意味
- おじ
- おばの夫
- 《話》(年輩者に)おじさん,おっさん
例文
The house with the red roof belongs to my uncle.
屋根の赤いその家は、私の叔父の家です。
I wanted Tom to go to Boston to visit his uncle.
トムには、ボストンに行って、叔父さんのところに顔を出してほしかったんだけどな。
My uncle has a business trip to Aomori tomorrow.
叔父さんは明日青森に出張です。
語源
ラテン語avunculus「母方のおじ」から（avus「祖父」＋「小さい」）。のちに広く「おじ」に。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)). Displaced native Middle English em (“uncle”) from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English fædera (“paternal uncle”).