estuary

• n. 河口

PIE*aidhの「燃やす」「沸騰する」が語源で、edifice, etherと同じ。 河口の乱流から名付けられた。

estuary (n.)

1530s, from Latin aestuarium "a tidal marsh, mudbeds covered by water at high tides; channel inland from the sea," from aestus "boiling (of the sea), tide, heat," from PIE *aidh- "to burn" (see edifice).

1. The stream debouches into the estuary .

この川は河口湾に流れ込む。

2.We live near the Thames estuary .

私たちの住まいはテムズ川の河口に近い。

3.We moored in the estuary ，waiting for high tide.

私たちは港に停泊して、満潮を待っています。

4. ( The lease area was adjacent to the greatest estuary and marsh area in the United States.

（借地は米国最大の河口と沼地に近い。／

5.Natural disturbance and human _ caused disturbance of estuary wetland ecosystem were identified.

河口湿地生態系が受ける自然干渉と人為干渉を系統的に認識した。