英単語

birthの意味・使い方・発音

birth

英 [bɜːθ] 美 [bɝθ]
  • n. 誕生; 系統、起源; 起源.

語源


birth バース

語源的にはbearと同じで、産む、産ませる。

英語の語源


birth
birth: [12] Old English had a word gebyrd ‘birth’ which survived until the end of the 13th century as birde, but it was quite distinct from (though related to) modern English birth, which was borrowed from Old Norse byrth. This came from the same Germanic stem (*ber-, *bur-) as produced bear, bairn, and indeed Old English gebyrd. The suffix -th denotes a process, or the result of a process: hence birth is ‘(the result of) the process of bearing a child’. Along with bath and death it is one of the most ancient words formed with -th.
=> bairn, bear, berth
birth (n.)
early 13c., from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse *byrer (replacing cognate Old English gebyrd "birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate"), from Proto-Germanic *gaburthis (cognates: Old Frisian berd, Old Saxon giburd, Dutch geboorte, Old High German giburt, German geburt, Gothic gabaurts), from PIE *bhrto past participle of root *bher- (1) "to carry; to bear children" (cognates: Sanskrit bhrtih "a bringing, maintenance," Latin fors, genitive fortis "chance;" see bear (v.)).

Suffix -th is for "process" (as in bath, death). Meaning "parentage, lineage, extraction" (revived from Old English) is from mid-13c. Birth control is from 1914; birth rate from 1859. Birth certificate is from 1842.
birth (v.)
mid-13c., from birth (n.). Related: Birthed; birthing.

例文


1. I had obtained the authentic details about the birth of the organization.
この組織の誕生に関する信頼性の高い詳細を把握しました。

2.The birth of a live healthy baby is a truly blessed event.
健康で活発な赤ちゃんが生まれたことは喜ばしいことだ。

3.Condomsare an effective method of birth control if used with care.
適切に使用すれば、コンドームは有効な避妊手段です。

4.Premature birth is the main cause of perinatal mortality.
早産が臨産死の主な原因である。

5.Usually a woman 's breasts produce milk spontaneously after the birth .
女性の**は通常、産後に自然に乳を分泌する。

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