yearn
英検準1級切望する（yearn for）
意味
- あこがれる,慕う,熱望する:《yearn for(after)+名》…にあこがれる
- (…に)同情する,(…を)気遣う《+over(for)+名》
例文
She yearned for her husband to come home.
彼女は夫の帰宅を待ち焦がれた。
Tom yearns to live in the country.
トムは田舎暮らしに憧れてるんだ。
I yearned to eat a real pretzel.
本場のプレッツェルが食べてみたくなった！
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Middle English yernen, yern (“to express or feel desire; to desire, long or wish for; to lust after; to ask or demand for”) [and other forms], from Old English ġeornan (“to desire, yearn; to beg”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan (“to be eager for, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną (“to desire, want”), from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”)) + *-janą (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives). The noun is derived from the verb.