古フランス語のgarser, scratchから、PIE*gher, to carve, scratchから、語源的にはcharacter,scratchと同じ。 rは比較のarse, assから来ている。
英語の語源
gash
gash: [16] Greek kharássein meant ‘sharpen, engrave, cut’ (it gave English character). It was borrowed into Latin as charaxāre, which appears to have found its way into Old Northern French as garser ‘cut, slash’. English took this over as garse, which survived, mainly as a surgical term meaning ‘make incisions’, into the 17th century. An intermediate form garsh, recorded in the 16th century, suggests that this was the source of modern English gash. => character
gash (v.)
1560s, alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen (late 14c.), from Old North French garser "to cut, slash" (see gash (n.)). For loss of -r-, see ass (n.2). Related: Gashed; gashing.
gash (n.)
1540s, alteration of Middle English garce "a gash, cut, wound, incision" (early 13c.), from Old North French garser "to scarify, cut, slash" (Old French *garse), apparently from Vulgar Latin *charassare, from Greek kharassein "engrave, sharpen, carve, cut," from PIE *gher- (4) "to scrape, scratch" (see character). Loss of -r- is characteristic (see ass (n.2)). Slang use for "vulva" dates to mid-1700s. Provincial English has a set of words (gashly, gashful, etc.) with forms from gash but senses from gast- "dreadful, frightful."
例文
1. He fell back,blood welling from a gash in his thigh.
彼は後ろに倒れ、太ももの口から血が出てきた。
2.He howled like a wounded animal as blood spurted from the gash .
傷口から血が噴き出すと、傷ついた動物のようにほえた。
3.There was an inch-long gash just above his right eye.
右目の上に1インチの傷がある。
4.The deep gash in his arm would take weeks to heal over.