harness

• vt.支配する; 馬具をつける; 装甲をつける; 利用する
• n.馬具；鎧；馬具のような紐；パラシュートの紐

古フランス語の harnois、武器、装備、おそらく herr、軍隊から、語源は harry と同じ、ここでは名詞の接尾辞 -ness によって低俗化した綴り。その後、軍馬の重要性、馬具の語彙的意味の派生、馬具の変化、馬や他の家畜を制御するという動詞的意味から、現在では自然の制御や利用を指す言葉として使われている。

harness

harness: [13] Etymologically, harness is ‘equipment for an army’. It comes via Old French herneis ‘military equipment’ from an unrecorded Old Norse *hernest, a compound formed from herr ‘army’ (a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *kharjaz ‘crowd’ and related to English harangue, harbinger, harbour, and harry) and nest ‘provisions’.

English took it over in the general sense ‘equipment’, and did not apply it specifically to the straps, buckles, etc of a horse until the 14th century (it was originally used for any equestrian equipment, including reins, saddles, etc, but now it denotes exclusively the gear of a draught horse).
=> harangue, harbinger, harbour, harry, herald

harness (n.)

c. 1300, "personal fighting equipment, body armor," also "armor or trappings of a war-horse," from Old French harnois, a noun of broad meaning: "arms, equipment; harness; male genitalia; tackle; household equipment" (12c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse *hernest "provisions for an army," from herr "army" (see harry (v.)) + nest "provisions" (see nostalgia). Non-military sense of "fittings for a beast of burden" is from early 14c. German Harnisch "harness, armor" is the French word, borrowed into Middle High German. The Celtic words are believed to be also from French, as are Spanish arnes, Portuguese arnez, Italian arnese. Prive harness (late 14c.) was a Middle English term for "sex organs."

harness (v.)

"to put a harness on a draught animal," c. 1300, from Old French harneschier "make ready, equip, arm," from harnois (see harness (n.)); figurative sense "to control for use as power" is from 1690s. Related: Harnessed; harnessing.

1. He was almost strangled by his parachute harness straps.

彼はもう少しで自分のパラシュートサスペンダーに首を絞められそうになった。

2.The vet had improvised a harness .

獣医は臨時に馬具を集めた。

3.to harness a horse

馬に挽回具

4.Scientists have known how to harness the limitless power of the sun.

科学者たちは無尽蔵の太陽エネルギーを利用する方法を知っている。

5.The brothers work in double harness .

兄弟で仕事をしています。