heath: [OE] Heath goes back to Indo-European *kait-, denoting ‘open, unploughed country’. Its Germanic descendant *khaithiz produced German and Dutch heide and English heath. One of the commonest plants of such habitats is the heather, and this was accordingly named in prehistoric Germanic *khaithjō, a derivative of the same base as produced *khaithiz, which in modern English has become heath ‘plant of the heather family’. (The word heather [14] itself, incidentally, does not appear to be related. It comes from a Scottish or Northern Middle English hadder or hathir, and its modern English form is due to association with heath.)
heath (n.)
Old English h?e "untilled land, tract of wasteland," especially flat, shrubby, desolate land;" earlier "heather, plants and shrubs found on heaths," influenced by cognate Old Norse heier "heath, moor," both from Proto-Germanic *haithiz (cognates: Old Saxon hetha, Old High German heida "heather," Dutch heide "heath," Gothic haiti "field"), from PIE *kaito "forest, uncultivated land" (cognates: Old Irish ciad, Welsh coed, Breton coet "wood, forest").
例文
1. He decided to cut across the Heath ，through Greenwich Park.
彼は近道を通ってグリニッジ公園を通ってヒースエリアを通り抜けることにした。
2. Heath 's appeal against the sentence was later successful.
ヒースは判決を不服として控訴し、後に勝訴した。
3.a Heath Robinson contraption
複雑で実用的ではない装置
4.Few kinds of plants grow in the heath .
荒れ地に生える植物は少ない。
5. In this paper, by using Heath - H ( ? ) del-mappings we give a characterizationof C-Semi-stratifiable spacs，C-Nagata spaces，KC-semi-stratifiable spacesand K-semi-stratifiable spaces.