write
要点書く、手紙を書く、を書く
意味
- 〈文字・文章・書物など〉を書く,記す;〈事〉を書く,手紙に書く
- 〈手紙〉を書く
- 《話》〈人〉に手紙を書く
- 《通例受動態で》(書いたように)…をはっきりと示す,明記する,刻みつける
- 字(文章など)を書く
- 手紙を書く,便りをする
- 〈ペンなどが〉書ける
例文
He had to write an account of the baseball game.
彼は野球の試合の記事を書かなければならなかった。
I was going to write to you, but I was too busy.
君に手紙を書くつもりだったんだが、忙しすぎてね。
I suggest that you write her a thank-you letter.
あの人にはお礼状を書いたほうがいいわよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta, rita (“to inscribe, sketch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Cz…