web
要点巣
意味
- (クモなどが紡ぎ出す)巣
- (クモの巣のような)網状組織;(張りめぐらした)仕掛け
- (製織中の)織物
- (アヒルなど水鳥の)水かき
- (輪転機の)巻取り紙
例文
Have you ever seen a spider spinning its web?
クモがクモの巣を張るところを見たことがありますか。
The popularity of a web site depends on its content.
ホームページの人気は内容次第。
Spiders always weave their webs in three dimensions.
クモはいつも自分たちの巣を３次元に織る。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaí…