fist: [OE] Like finger, fist seems etymologically to be a reference to the number of fingers on the hand. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *fūstiz (source also of German faust and Dutch vuist). This may represent an earlier *fungkhstiz, which has been referred to an Indo- European ancestor *pngkstis, a derivative of *pengke ‘five’. (Dutch vuist ‘fist’, incidentally, is probably the source of English foist [16], which originally denoted the dishonest concealing of a dice in one’s hand.) => finger, five, foist
fist (n.)
Old English fyst "fist, clenched hand," from West Germanic *fustiz (cognates: Old Saxon fust, Old High German fust, Old Frisian fest, Middle Dutch vuust, Dutch vuist, German Faust), from Proto-Germanic *funhstiz, probably ultimately from PIE *penkwe- "five" (see five, and compare Old Church Slavonic pesti, Russian piasti "fist").
Meaning "a blow with the fist" is from 1767. Fist-fight "duel with the fists" is from c. 1600. As a verb, Old English had fystlian "to strike with the fist."
例文
1. Without warning,Bardo smacked his fist into his open hand.
バドは自分が広げた手のひらに何の前触れもなく一発でぶつかった。
2.She shookher fist ."I 'll show you，"she said.
彼女は拳を振った。「見せてやる」と彼女は言った。
3.My son had a tantrum and banged his fist on the ground.
息子はかんしゃくを起こし、地面をたたいた。
4. He raised his right fist and declaimed: "Liar and cheat!「
彼は右拳を上げて「うそつき、うそつき！」と叫んだ。
5.The iron- fist policy towards the fundamentalists is unlikely to be interrupted.