haunt

• vt.頻繁に出没する。
• はびこる；出没する
• n. よく出没する

原語のゲルマン語 * haimaz, home, dwelling から。語源は home と同じ。この語は元々、死後に家に帰る霊を指し、ghostly, haunting の語源となった。lamp、lanternと比較される。

haunt

haunt: [13] Etymologically, a ghost that haunts a building is only using the place as its ‘home’. The word’s distant ancestor is the prehistoric Germanic verb *khaimatjan, a derivative of the noun *khaimaz (source of English home). This was borrowed by Old French as hanter ‘frequent a place’, and passed on to English as haunt. Its main modern supernatural meaning did not develop until the 16th century (the first records of this sense come in Shakespeare’s plays).
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haunt (v.)

early 13c., "to practice habitually, busy oneself with, take part in," from Old French hanter "to frequent, resort to, be familiar with" (12c.), probably from Old Norse heimta "bring home," from Proto-Germanic *haimatjanan "to go or bring home," from *haimaz- "home" (see home (n.)). Meaning "to frequent (a place)" is c. 1300 in English. Use in reference to a spirit returning to the house where it had lived perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but it was reinforced by Shakespeare's plays, and it is first recorded 1590 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

haunt (n.)

c. 1300, "place frequently visited," also in Middle English, "a habit, custom" (early 14c.), from haunt (v.) in its original sense of "to practice habitually." The meaning "spirit that haunts a place, ghost" is first recorded 1843, originally in stereotypical U.S. black speech, from the later meaning of the verb.

1. The place is the haunt of off-duty policemen.

ここは非番の警察官がよく訪れる場所です。

2.The area was a haunt of criminals.

この地域は犯罪者がよく出没する場所だ。

3.They say ghosts haunt this house.

この家ではよく幽霊が出るという。

4.People say ghosts haunt that old house.

その古い邸宅には幽霊が出没しているという。

5.The college library is a favorite haunt .

大学図書館は人々の好きな場所です。