woe
意味
- 深い悲しみ,悲哀,苦悩
- 《複数形で》災難,苦難,難儀
例文
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing.
恋は悲しみに満ちた病であり、あらゆる治療をも薬をも受け付けない。
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
富はあまたの苦痛を覆う。
A woman is the woe of man.
女は男の災いである。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection). Cognates Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“…