yarn
要点糸
意味
- (織物・編み物用の)糸
- 《話》物語,話;(特に)長い冒険談,ほら話
- 長話(ほら話,冒険談)をする
例文
Tom's cat is playing with a ball of yarn.
トムの猫が、毛糸玉で遊んでるよ。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English yern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Cognates Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.