yard
要点庭
意味
- ヤード(長さの単位で3フィート,約91.4センチ;《略》yd.(複 yds.));(日本で布を測るときの)ヤール
- (特に建築業で)1立方ヤード
- 帆げた
- (家・建物の周囲またはそれらに囲まれた)庭,中庭,構内
- (家畜などの)囲い,おり
- 《しばしば複合語を作って》仕事場,作業場,製造場;(駅の)操車場
- 《the Yard》《英話》=Scotland Yard
例文
Chickens and geese were walking around the yard.
ニワトリとガチョウたちは庭を歩き回っていました。
I found my dog lying under the tree in our yard.
私の犬は裏庭の木の下で寝ていた。
There used to be a vegetable garden in our yard.
私の家の庭には昔菜園があった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”). See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”),…