vouch
意味
- 〈人が〉保証する,請け合う
- vouch for it+that 節…であることを保証する
- 〈物が〉(…の)保証になる,証明になる《+for+名》
例文
Father vouched for his friend.
父が友人の保証人となった。
I vouch for his sincerity.
彼が誠実なことは私が責任を持ちます。
I can give you a copy of the report, but I can't vouch for its accuracy.
報告の写しをあげましょう、しかしその正確性は保証できません。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”) [and other forms], from Vulgar Latin *vocicāre, derived from Latin vocāre (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”).