bottom: [OE] Bottom is a word with cognates widely represented in other Indo-European languages. It comes ultimately from the Indo- European base *bhudh- or *bhundh- ‘base, foundation’, source of Latin fundus, from which English gets fund, fundamental, foundation, and founder ‘sink’. An extended form of the base passed into Germanic as *buthm- or *buthn-, which produced German boden ‘ground, earth’ and English bottom. The application of the word to the ‘buttocks’ seems to have arisen towards the end of the 18th century. => foundation, fund, fundamental
bottom (n.)
Old English botm, bodan "ground, soil, foundation, lowest part," from Proto-Germanic *buthm- (cognates: Old Frisian boden "soil," Old Norse botn, Dutch bodem, Old High German bodam, German Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from PIE root *bhu(n)d(h)- (cognates: Sanskrit budhnah, Avestan buna- "bottom," Greek pythmen "foundation," Latin fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," Old Irish bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "posterior of a person" is from 1794. Bottom dollar "the last dollar one has" is from 1882. Bottom-feeder, originally of fishes, is from 1866.
bottom (v.)
1540s, "to put a bottom on," from bottom (n.). Meaning "to reach the bottom of" is from 1808 (earlier figuratively, 1785). Related: Bottomed; bottoming.
例文
1. I undid the bottom two buttons of my yellow and grey shirt.
私は自分の黄色の灰色の間のシャツの一番下のボタンを2つ外した。
2.There 's an extra blanket in the bottom drawer of the cupboard.
クローゼットの一番下の引き出しには、余分な毛布が1枚入っています。
3.She lay at the bottom of the stairs,whimpering in pain.
彼女は階段の底に横たわって、痛くて嗚咽していた。
4.I have to get to the bottom of this mess.
この混乱を招いた本当の原因を究明しなければならない。
5.The correct answers can be found at the bottom of page 8.