cradle

• n.揺りかご；発祥地；源泉；アウトリガー
• vt. 揺りかごにする；...を置く支えの上に置くゆりかごに入れる

PIE*skerから、曲げる、回す、編む、語源的にはリング、ベビーベッドと同じ。

cradle (n.)

"baby's bed," c. 1200, cradel, from Old English cradol "little bed, cot," from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz "basket" (cognates: Old High German kratto, krezzo "basket," German Kr?tze "basket carried on the back"). From late 14c. as "device for holding or hoisting." Cat's cradle is so called from 1768. Cradle-snatching "amorous pursuit of younger person" is from 1906.

"It's like cradle-snatching to want to marry a girl of sixteen, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, for you can't be much more than twenty one yourself." ["Edith Van Dyne" (L. Frank Baum), "Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad," 1906]

cradle (v.)

c. 1500, from cradle (n.). Related: Cradled; cradling.

1. Mali is the cradle of some of Africa 's richest civilizations.

マリはアフリカで最も古い文明の発祥地である。

2.I dropped the receiver back in the cradle .

受話器を受話器スタンドに戻します。

3.He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.

牽引ブラケットを船体に固定した。

4.She rocked the baby to sleep in its cradle .

彼女はゆりかごを揺らして赤ちゃんを寝かせた。

5.a cradle swathed in draperies and blue ribbon

プリーツ装飾織物と青いリボンを束ねたゆりかご