PIE *bheueの「存在する」「住む」が語源で、語源的にはbeと同じ。 もともとは単純な住居で、後に見晴らし台、日陰となる。語源的にはboothと同じ。
英語の語源
bower
bower: [OE] A bower was originally simply a place where one lived; the modern connotation of a ‘secluded arbour’ did not become fully established until the 16th century. Old English būr came from West and North Germanic *būraz or *būram, a derivative of the prolific base *bü- ‘dwell’, which also produced be, boor, booth, bound ‘intending to go’, build, burly, byelaw, byre, and the -bour of neighbour. => be, boor, booth, build, burly, byre, neighbour
bower (n.)
Old English bur "room, hut, dwelling, chamber," from Proto-Germanic *buraz (cognates: Old Norse bur "chamber," Swedish bur "cage," Old High German bur "dwelling, chamber," German Bauer "birdcage"), from *bu- "to dwell," from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Modern spelling developed after mid-14c. Sense of "leafy arbor" (place closed in by trees) is first attested 1520s. Hence, too, Australia's bower-bird (1847).
例文
1. They sat under the leafy bower at the end of the garden and watched the sun set.
彼らは庭の端にある葉で作られた棚の下に座って落日を見ている。
2.Mrs.Quilp was pining in her bower .
キュルプ夫人は彼女の部屋で悲しい歳月を過ごしている。
3.She rolls the curtain up and light comes in her bower .
玉戸簾には巻けない.
4.To enclose in or as if in a bower ; embower.
はあずまやの中にあるか、またはそのようにある;あずまやで敷物を隠す。
5.Lucy arranged her bower and put on her best white frock.