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whale

/weɪl/ 標準 頻度 3859位

意味

  1. 鯨: 捕鯨に従事する 〔話〕 非常に大きい[すごい]もの (a ~ at [for, on] …の得意[熱心]な人)
  2. (棒・むち・手などで)…を打つ,打ちのめす,ひどく打つ
  3. …を打ち負かす

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From Middle English whal, whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)).

出典: Wiktionary「whale」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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