wail
意味
- (苦しみ・悲しみなどで)泣き叫ぶ《+with(for)+名》
- 〈風などが〉悲しげな音を立てる
- 《軽べつして》(…を)ぐちる,こぼす《+over(about)+名》
- …を嘆く;〈…である〉と嘆き悲しむ《+that 節》
- 嘆き悲しむこと;泣き叫ぶ声
例文
A police car chases after the criminal with its siren wailing.
パトカーが犯人の車をけたたましいサイレンを鳴らしながら追跡する。
The injured person wailed with pain after recovering from the anaesthesia.
けが人は麻酔から覚めた後痛みで泣きわめいた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy. The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14ᵗʰ c.. The noun came from the verb.