breed: [OE] The Old English verb brēdan came from West Germanic *brōdjan, a derivative of *brōd-, which produced brood. This in turn was based on *brō-, whose ultimate source was the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of breed is thus not ‘reproduction’ so much as ‘incubation, the warmth which promotes hatching’. => braise, brawn, breath, brood
breed (v.)
Old English bredan "bring young to birth, carry," also "cherish, keep warm," from West Germanic *brodjan (cognates: Old High German bruoten, German brüten "to brood, hatch"), from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhreue- "burn, heat" (see brood (n.)). Original notion of the word was incubation, warming to hatch. Sense of "grow up, be reared" (in a clan, etc.) is late 14c. Related: Bred; breeding.
breed (n.)
"race, lineage, stock" (originally of animals), 1550s, from breed (v.). Of persons, from 1590s. Meaning "kind, species" is from 1580s.
例文
1. If they are unemployed it 's bound to breed resentment.
もし彼らが仕事を失ったら、きっと恨みが生まれます。
2.Many animals breed only at certain times of the year.
多くの動物は1年のある時だけ交配繁殖する。
3.a hardy breed of sheep
適応力の強いヒツジ品種
4.a rare breed of miniature horses
珍しいポニー
5.The parents are trying to breed their son a musician.