beaver

• n. ビーバー; ビーバーの毛皮
• n. （ビーバー）人名；（英）Beaver.

PIE *bhebhrusから。語根反復構文で、語源はbher（茶色）。

beaver

beaver: [OE] Like bear, beaver appears to mean etymologically ‘brown animal’. Old English beofor or befor came from a prehistoric West and North Germanic *bebruz, which in turn went back to an Indo-European *bhebhrús, a derivative of the base *bhru- ‘brown’. Other words for ‘beaver’ from the same source include Czech bobr, Lithuanian bebrùs, and Latin fiber.

beaver (n.)

Old English beofor, befer (earlier bebr), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (cognates: Old Saxon bibar, Old Norse bjorr, Middle Dutch and Dutch bever, Low German bever, Old High German bibar, German Biber), from PIE *bhebhrus, reduplication of root *bher- (3) "brown, bright" (cognates: Lithuanian bebrus, Czech bobr, Welsh befer; see bear (n.) for the likely reason for this). Gynecological sense ("female genitals, especially with a display of pubic hair") is 1927 British slang, transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), from the appearance of split beaver pelts.

1. Ask young Harry to do it-he 's still an eager beaver and wants to impress by his willingness.

若いヘンリーにやってもらいましょう――彼はまだ野心的な人で、投資に深い印象を残すように努力しています。dd>

2.The hat is made of beaver .

この帽子はビーバーの毛皮製です。

3.These young people beaver away at school.

この若者たちは学校で一生懸命勉強している。

4.The beaver is very good.

ビーバーの皮は上等だ.

5.The man is an eager beaver .

あの人は仕事に精を出している。