wreath
意味
- 花輪,花冠
- (煙・雪などの)渦巻き,輪《+of+名》
例文
A wreath was bound around his head.
花環が彼の頭に巻かれた。
I'm thinking of making a Christmas wreath out of these pinecones.
この松ぼっくりで、クリスマスのリースを作ろうと思ってるんだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English *wreoþa, wriþa (“band, coil, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *wriþō, from Proto-Germanic *wriþô, from *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.