choose: [OE] Choose is a verb of ancient pedigree. It can be traced back to the prehistoric Indo-European base *geus-, whose descendants in other Indo-European languages include Latin gustus ‘taste’, source of English gusto and gustatory and French go?t. Its Germanic offshoot, *kiusan, produced a diversity of forms in the early Middle Ages, including Old English cēosan, but most of them, apart from English choose and Dutch kiezen, have now died out.
Germanic had an alternative version of the verb, however, *kausjan, and this was borrowed into Gallo-Roman as causīre, which provided the basis of Old French choisir ‘choose’, and hence of chois, source of English choice. => choice, gusto
choose (v.)
Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cognates: Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.
例文
1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
日焼け止めリップクリームを選択して保護を強化します。
2. Choose a soft，medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.
それぞれのニーズに合わせて、柔らかくて、硬くてちょうど良い、または硬いマットレスを選びます。
3.Knox had taken it on himself to choose the wine.
ノックスが勝手に主としてワインを選んだ。
4.The route that the boatmen choose varies according to the water level.
船頭が選択するコースは、水位によって異なります。
5.The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose .