brow

• n. 眉、眉；額；表情
• n. （眉）人名；（西）眉毛

PIE *bhru, browから。

brow

brow: [OE] In Old English, brow meant ‘eyelash’, but there seems little doubt, from related words in other languages (such as Sanskrit bhrūs and Greek ophrus), that the original underlying sense of the word is ‘eyebrow’, and this resurfaced, or was recreated, in English in the 11th century. Its ultimate source is Indo- European *bhrūs, which passed via Germanic brūs into Old English as brū.

brow (n.)

early 14c., browes, brues "brow, forehead, eyebrow," earlier brouwes (c. 1300), bruwen (c. 1200), from Old English bru, probably originally "eyebrow," but extended to "eyelash," then "eyelid" by association of the hair of the eyebrow with the hair of the eyelid, the eyebrows then becoming Old English oferbrua "overbrows" (early Middle English uvere breyhes or briges aboue te eiges).

The general word for "eyebrow" in Middle English was brew, breowen (c. 1200), from Old English br?w (West Saxon), *brew (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *br?wi- "blinker, twinkler" (cognates: Old Frisian bre, Old Saxon brawa, Middle Dutch brauwe "eyelid," Old High German brawa"eyebrow," Old Norse bra "eyebrow," Gothic brahw "twinkle, blink," in phrase in brahwa augins "in the twinkling of an eye").

Old English bru is from Proto-Germanic *brus- "eyebrow" (source also of Old Norse brun), from PIE *bhru- "eyebrow" (cognates: Sanskrit bhrus "eyebrow," Greek ophrys, Old Church Slavonic bruvi, Lithuanian bruvis "brow," Old Irish bru "edge"). The -n- in the Old Norse (brun) and German (braune) forms of the word are from a genitive plural inflection.

Words for "eyelid," "eyelash," and "eyebrow" changed about maddeningly in Old and Middle English (and in all the West Germanic languages). By 1530s, brow had been given an extended sense of "forehead," especially with reference to movements and expressions that showed emotion or attitude.

1. His hair fell over his brow instead of being brushed straight back.

彼の髪はきちんと後ろに梳かず、額に掛けている。

2.The Inspector took out a handker-chief and mopped his brow .

検事はハンカチを取り出し、眉を拭いた。

3.In a moment he was seated，diagonally opposite her， brow furrowed.

すぐに彼は眉をひそめて彼女の斜め向かいに着席した。

4.She wrinkled her brow inquisitively.

彼女は好奇心を持って眉をしかめた。

5.The nurse mopped his fevered brow .

看護師は彼のパーマをかけた額を拭いた。