PIE *kerp,*skerpから、切り刻む、スライスする、切る、語源的にはshear, sharp, harvestと同じ。
英語の語源
harrow (n.)
agricultural implement, heavy wooden rake, c. 1300, haru, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hearwa, apparently related to Old Norse harfr "harrow," and perhaps connected with harvest (n.). Or possibly from hergian (see harry (v.)).
harrow (v.1)
"to drag a harrow over, break or tear with a harrow," c. 1300, from harrow (n.). In the figurative sense of "wound the feelings, distress greatly" it is first attested c. 1600 in Shakespeare. Related: Harrowed; harrowing.
harrow (v.2)
"to ravage, despoil," especially in harrowing of Hell in Christian theology, early 14c., from Old English hergian "to ravage, plunder; seize, capture" (see harry (v.)). Related: Harrowed; harrowing.
例文
1. The ox is never woe,till he to the harrow go.
牛は代掻きもせずに苦を知らない。
2.I did not harrow our hostess with all that.
私たちの女主人を拷問することはありません。
3.I first went to Harrow in the summer term.
今年の夏初めてハロ公学に行きました。
4.He is removing weeds with a harrow in the rice field.
彼はレーキで田んぼの雑草を除去している。
5.Sir Winston Churchill,was young,he attended a public school called Harrow .