witch
要点女の魔法使い
意味
- 女の魔法使い,魔女,女妖術使い
- 醜い老婆,鬼ばば
- 魅惑的な女
例文
Witch hazel tightens pores without drying skin.
ウィッチヘーゼルは、乾燥させずに毛穴を引き締めます。
Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.
ここだけの話だけれど、あの太った見苦しい魔女は減量中なのだ。
The strange-looking woman was thought to be a witch.
その怪しい女性は、魔女と考えられた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“(female) witch; sorceress”) and wiċċa (“(male) witch; sorcerer; warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell; to warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse; to divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; to separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit वि॒नक्ति॑ (vinákti, “to set apart; to separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more. The verb derives from the noun.