heifer

• n. ヘイファー
• n.(Heifer)人の名前；（ドイツ語で）雌牛

語源は不明。おそらく古英語のheag, mate, fearr, bullから。すなわち、雄牛と交尾する牛。

heifer (n.)

Old English heahfore, West Saxon; Northumbrian hehfaro, heffera (plural), of unknown origin, not found outside English. The first element seems to be heah "high," common in Old English compounds with a sense of "great in size." The second element may be related to Old English fearr "bull," or to Old English faran "to go" (giving the whole a sense of "high-stepper"); but there are serious sense difficulties with both conjectures. Liberman offers this alternative:

Old English seems to have had the word *h?gfore 'heifer.' The first element (*h?g-) presumably meant 'enclosure' (as do haw and hedge), whereas -fore was a suffix meaning 'dweller, occupant' ....

In modern use a female that has not yet calved, as opposed to a cow, which has, and a calf, which is an animal of either sex not more than a year old. As derisive slang for "a woman, girl" it dates from 1835.

1. A heifer bellowed in her stall.

子牛が牛の柵の中で吠えている。

2.An American farmer named Dan West developed the idea for Heifer International.

ダン？ウェストの米国農夫は国際的な子牛の構想を提出した。

3.They black heifer chalk，said，'she is white，Bos cretatus."

彼らは黒い牛の代わりに石膏粉を塗って、「あなたはもう白くなった」と言った。b>HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow.

子牛は雄牛が道具をはめて苦労している鋤畑を見た。

5.The goddess delivered the heifer to Argus,to be strictly watched.

では女神はこの小さな雌牛をアルゴスに渡して厳しく見張った。