earn: [OE] The underlying sense of earn is ‘gain as a result of one’s labour’. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic verb *aznōjan, which was based on the noun *aznu ‘work, labour’. This seems often to have been used specifically for ‘work in the fields’, for several other related forms in the Germanic languages, such as German ernte and Gothic asans, denote ‘harvest’, which in some cases has been metaphorically extended to apply to ‘autumn’.
earn (v.)
Old English earnian "deserve, earn, merit, labor for, win, get a reward for labor," from Proto-Germanic *aznon "do harvest work, serve" (source also of Old Frisian esna "reward, pay"), denominative verb from *azno "labor" especially "field labor" (source of Old Norse ?nn "work in the field," Old High German arnon "to reap"), from PIE root *es-en- "harvest, fall" (cognates: Old High German aren "harvest, crop," German Ernte "harvest," Old English ern "harvest," Gothic asans "harvest, summer," Old Church Slavonic jeseni, Russian osen, Old Prussian assanis "autumn"). Also from the same root are Gothic asneis, Old High German esni "hired laborer, day laborer," Old English esne "serf, laborer, man." Related: Earned; earning.
例文
1. Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying.
雷求学中は地元の農場で働いて生活費を稼ぐ。
2.Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising.
選手は広告を撮ってお金を稼ぐことができるようにすべきです。
3.Young conductors earn their spurs in a small orchestra or opera house.
若い指揮者たちが小さなバンドや小さなオペラハウスで頭角を現している。
4.They earn their living by squatting the land and sharecropping.
彼らは土地を無断で占用し、畑の収益に応じて生計を立てている。
5. The dancers can earn anything between ￡20 and ￡30 for each session.