eerie

• adj. 恐ろしい；グロテスク

古英語のearg「恐ろしい」から。

eerie

eerie: [13] Eerie seems to come ultimately from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *arg-, although the connection has not been established for certain. It emerged in Scotland and northern England in the 13th century in the sense ‘cowardly, fearful’, and it was not until the 18th century that it began to veer round semantically from ‘afraid’ to ‘causing fear’. Burns was one of the first to use it so in print: ‘Be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn’. In the course of the 19th century its use gradually spread further south to become general English.

eerie (adj.)

also eery, c. 1300, "timid, affected by superstitious fear," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful, craven, vile, wretched, useless," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cognates: Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.

1. This eerie calm is an illusion.

というグロテスクな穏やかさは一種の虚像である。

2.an eerie yellow light

神秘的な黄色のランプ

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3.It 's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.

夜に真っ暗な森を歩くのは怖い。

4.As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.

私の部屋への廊下に入ると、その奇妙で恐ろしい感覚が私を包み込んだ。

5.The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.

この映画は、現実生活で起きている一連のドラマチックな出来事と奇妙な偶然の一致がある。