breath

• n.息、吐息; （呼吸の）一息; 瞬間、瞬間; そよ風; 気配; 声のない、空気のような音

PIE *gwhre「息をする」から。

breath

breath: [OE] Breath comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (source also of braise, breed, brood, and probably brawn), and in its original Indo-European form *bhrētos appears to have meant something like the ‘steam, vapour, etc given off by something burning or cooking’. When it reached Old English, via Germanic *br?thaz, it still meant ‘smell’ or ‘exhalation’, and it was not in fact until as late as the 14th century that this notion of ‘exhalation’ came to be applied to human or animal respiration (the main Old English word for ‘breath’ had been ?thm, which German still has in the form atem).

The verb breathe is 13thcentury.
=> braise, brawn, breed, brood

breath (n.)

Old English br?e "odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor" (Old English word for "air exhaled from the lungs" was ?em), from Proto-Germanic *br?thaz "smell, exhalation" (cognates: Old High German bradam, German Brodem "breath, steam"), from PIE root *gwhre- "to breathe, smell."

1. I held my breath and sank under the water.

私は息を止めて水底に沈んだ。

2.There she was,slightly out of breath from running.

彼女はそこにいて、少し息ができないほど走っていた。

3.He was aware of the stink of stale beer on his breath .

彼は自分の口の中に変味ビールのすえた味があることを知っている。

4.The whole world holds its breath for this speech.

世界中が息を殺して話を待っている。

5.Any exercise that causes undue shortness of breath should be stopped.

呼吸困難を引き起こすトレーニングはすべて停止しなければならない。