drought: [OE] Etymologically, drought means simply ‘dryness’. The prehistoric Germanic base that produced English dry (and indeed drain) was *draug-, *drūg-. To this was added the suffix -th, used for creating abstract nouns from adjectives, as in length, strength, and truth; this gave Old English drūgath. The subsequent change of -th to -t (which began in the 13th century) is mirrored in such words as height and theft. => drain, dry
drought (n.)
Old English drugae, drugoe "drought, dryness, desert," from Proto-Germanic *drugothaz, from Germanic root *dreug- "dry" (cf high/height) with *-itho, Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns (see -th (2)). Drouth was a Middle English variant continued in Scottish and northern English dialect and in poetry.
例文
1. The path was dry and slithery from the drought .
路地は干ばつで乾いたり滑ったりしている。
2.Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
専門家たちは、これから起こる干ばつが広い地域を襲うと考えている。
3.In fact many food crops failed because of the drought .
実際には、干ばつのために多くの穀物が不作である。
4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.
干ばつで200万人以上が餓死の危機に瀕している。
5.The drought there is stretching American resources.