dye: [OE] Dye is something of a mystery word. Its original meaning seems to have been simply ‘colour’, its modern connotations of ‘artificially changing colour’ a secondary development, but its source remains unknown. A connection has been suggested with Old English dēagol ‘secret, hidden’, but what the implications of that would be for its semantic history are not clear. The convention of spelling the word dye did not become established until as recently as the 19th century; until then die was equally common, and orthographic confusion with die ‘cease to live’ was rife.
dye (n.)
Old English deah, deag "a color, hue, tinge," perhaps related to deagol "secret, hidden, dark, obscure," from Proto-Germanic *daugilaz (cognates: Old Saxon dogol "secret," Old High German tougal "dark, hidden, secret").
dye (v.)
Old English deagian "to dye," from the source of dye (n.). Spelling distinction between dye and die was not firm till 19c. "Johnson in his Dictionary, spelled them both die, while Addison, his near contemporary, spelled both dye" [Barnhart]. Related: dyed. For dyed in the wool (or grain) see wool (n.).
例文
1. Applying the dye can be messy，particularly on long hair.
カラー剤を塗るとめちゃくちゃになる可能性があります。特にロングヘアです。
2.He is still vain enough to dye his hair red.
彼はまだ見栄っ張りで、髪を赤褐色に染めた。
3.The red dye on the leather is water-soluble.
皮革上のこの赤色染料は水に可溶である。dd>
4.The dye is adsorbed onto the fibre.
染料が繊維に吸着している。
5.No wool is so white but a dyer can dye it black.