gable

• n. 山の壁；三角形の飾り
• vt.三角形の壁を作る；三角形の飾りを取り付ける
• vi. 三角形の壁を作る；三角形の飾りを作る
• n. （ゲーブル）人名；（英）ガブリエル；（仏）ガブラー

PIE*ghebhのフォークから。 語源的にはjavelinと同じ。 フォークに似ていることから名付けられた。

gable

gable: [14] The notion underlying gable is probably of ‘topping’ or ‘surmounting’, for it has been traced back by some to prehistoric Indo-European *ghebhalā, which also produced Greek kephalé ‘head’. Its immediate source was Old Norse gafl, which gave English the form gavel, subsequently remodelled on the basis of Old French gable (itself probably borrowed originally from the Old Norse word).
=> cephalic

gable (n.)

"end of a ridged roof cut off in a vertical plane, together with the wall from the level of the eaves to the apex," mid-14c., "a gable of a building; a facade," from Old French gable "facade, front, gable," from Old Norse gafl "gable, gable-end" (in north of England, the word probably is directly from Norse), according to Watkins, probably from Proto-Germanic *gablaz "top of a pitched roof" (cognates: Middle Dutch ghevel, Dutch gevel, Old High German gibil, German Giebel, Gothic gibla "gable"). This is traced to a PIE *ghebh-el- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" (such as Old English gafol, geafel, Old Saxon gafala, Dutch gaffel, Old High German gabala "pitchfork," German Gabel "fork;" Old Irish gabul "forked twig") and "head" (such as Old High German gibilla, Old Saxon gibillia "skull").

Possibly the primitive meaning of the words may have been 'top', 'vertex'; this may have given rise to the sense of 'gable', and this latter to the sense of 'fork', a gable being originally formed by two pieces of timber crossed at the top supporting the end of the roof-tree." [OED]

Related: Gabled; gables; gable-end.

1. It has a dormer roof joining both gable ends.

天窓付き斜屋根が両側の山壁を結んでいる。

2.I don 't like the ugly look of that hole in the gable .

私は山の壁の見苦しい穴が好きではありません。

3.I am a Clark Gable nut：I have seen all his films.

クラーク?ギャボのファンです。彼が演じたすべての映画を見たことがあります。

4.His first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable .

ハリウッドでの最初の仕事はクラークカバーのスタントマンとしての仕事だった。

5.Several paintings are hanging on the gable walls of his house.

彼の家の山にはいくつかの絵が掛けられている。