Jew

• n. ユダヤ人；ユダヤ人；守銭奴
• vt.だます；殺す

古フランス語 giu から、ラテン語 Iudaeum から、ヘブライ語 yehudah, Judah から。 文字通り、栄光、賞賛、ヤコブの四男、ユダヤ人の祖先。

harp、ハープ、Jew、おそらくjawのスペルミスからか、ユダヤ人商人がイギリスに楽器を売ったからか、Jewが楽器に神秘性を与えたという説からか、古代聖書の楽器であることを示唆する。

Jew (n.)

late 12c. (in plural, giwis), from Anglo-French iuw, Old French giu, from Latin Iudaeum (nominative Iudaeus), from Greek Ioudaios, from Aramaic jehudhai (Hebrew y'hudi) "Jew," from Y'hudah "Judah," literally "celebrated," name of Jacob's fourth son and of the tribe descended from him. Replaced Old English Iudeas "the Jews." Originally, "Hebrew of the kingdom of Judah."

Jews' harp "simple mouth harp" is from 1580s, earlier Jews' trump (1540s); the connection with Jewishness is obscure. Jew-baiting first recorded 1853, in reference to German Judenhetze. In uneducated times, inexplicable ancient artifacts were credited to Jews, based on the biblical chronology of history: such as Jews' money (1570s) "Roman coins found in England." In Greece, after Christianity had erased the memory of classical glory, ruins of pagan temples were called "Jews' castles," and in Cornwall, Jews' houses was the name for the remains of ancient tin-smelting works.

jew (v.)

"to cheat, to drive a hard bargain," 1824, from Jew (n.) (compare gyp, welsh, etc.). The campaign to eliminate it in early 20c. was so successful that people began to avoid the noun and adjective, too, and started using Hebrew instead.

Now I'll say 'a Jew' and just the word Jew sounds like a dirty word and people don't know whether to laugh or not. [Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)]

1. He was born a Jew in first century Palestine.

彼は1世紀パレスチナ生まれのユダヤ人だ。

2.Shylock，the Jew ，lived at Venice：he was an usurer.

ユダヤ人シャーロックはベニスに住んでいて、彼は印紙代を置く人です。