abash
英 [ə'bæʃ]
美 [ə'bæʃ]
英語の語源
- abash
- abash: [14] Abash shares a common ancestry with abeyance [16], although the latter underwent an about-turn in meaning in the 17th century which disguises their relationship. They go back to a Latin verb batāre, meaning ‘yawn’ or ‘gape’. This was borrowed into French as baer, later bayer (it was the source of English bay ‘recessed space’).
The addition of the prefix es- (from Latin ex-) produced esbaer, later e(s)bahir ‘gape with astonishment’, whence, via the present stem e(s)bass-, came English abash, which originally meant ‘stand amazed’ as well as ‘embarrass, discomfit’. (Bashful is a 16thcentury derivative, with elision of the a-, which was first used by the dramatist Nicholas Udall.) Addition of the prefix a- to Old French baer, meanwhile, had given abaer ‘aspire after’, and its noun abeance ‘aspiration, desire’.
In legal terminology, this word was used in French for the condition of a person in expectation or hope of receiving property, but in English the focus quickly became reversed to the property, and its condition of being temporarily without an owner.
=> abeyance, bashful - abash (v.)
- "perplex, embarrass," early 15c., earlier "lose one's composure, be upset" (late 14c.), from Old French esbaiss-, present stem of esbaer "gape with astonishment," from es "out" (see ex-) + ba(y)er "to be open, gape," from Latin *batare "to yawn, gape," from root *bat, possibly imitative of yawning. Related: Abashed; abashing. Bashful is a 16c. derivative.
例文
- 1. The entire metropolitan Center possesed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
- 都心部全体には、職業を探しに来た一般の人たちをわざと恐れさせようとするような高慢な気質がある。
- 2.Nothing can abash him.
- 彼の顔を赤らめることは何もない。
- 3.When the child see all the room fille with stranger，he is much abash .
- あの子は部屋が見知らぬ人でいっぱいになっているのを見ると、とても落ち着かない。
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