gorse

• n.金木犀；ワトルビーン（furgeに等しい）
• n. （ゴース）人名；（仏）ゴース

PIE*ghers ,thorns から、語源的には horror, horror と同じ。 棘があることから名付けられた。

gorse

gorse: [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo-European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of unknown origin, while whin [11] was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian language.

gorse (n.)

Old English gors "gorse, furze," from Proto-Germanic *gorst- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German gersta, Middle Dutch gherste, Dutch gerst, German gerste "barley"), from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (source also of Latin hordeum "barley;" see horror).

1. Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.

カナリアの花々は彼女の馬をびっくりさせて急に後退させた。

2.Thoroughly drenched and chilled，the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse .

2人の冒険家は全身びしょびしょになって身震いし、元のスズメの花の茂みに戻った。

3.People say that when gorse is out of bloom,kissing is out of fashion.

人々は、荊豆が花期を過ぎるとキスもファッションに合わないと言っている。