herd

• n. 群れ; 放牧者
• vi. 群れを作る；集める
• vt. 放牧する；群れを作る
• n.（群れの）人名；（英、フィン語の）群れ

PIE*kerdh「群れ」から。

herd

herd: [OE] Herd is part of a widespread Indo- European family of words denoting ‘group’ (others include Sanskrit ?árdhas ‘troop, multitude’ and Welsh cordd ‘tribe, family’). It goes back to an Indo-European *kherdhā-, whose Germanic descendant *kherthō produced German herde, Swedish and Danish hjord, and English herd. Herd ‘herdsman’, now found only in compounds such as shepherd and goatherd, is a different word, albeit derived from the same Germanic source. Its Germanic relatives are German hirte, Swedish herde, and Danish hyrde.

herd (n.)

Old English heord "herd, flock," from Proto-Germanic *herdo- (cognates: Old Norse hjore, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda "herd"), from PIE *kerdh- "a row, group, herd" (cognates: Sanskrit ?árdhah "herd, troop," Old Church Slavonic ?reda "herd," Greek korthys "heap," Lithuanian kerd?ius "shepherd"). Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1908.

herd (v.)

mid-13c., a??to watch over or herd (livestock);a?? of animals, a??to gather in a herd, to form a flock,a?? late 14c., from herd (n.). Related: Herded; herding.

1. Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep.

ステファノはバイクで羊を放した。

2.A herd of elephants lolloped across the plains towards a watering hole.

象の群れはゆっくりと不器用に平原を通り抜け、水たまりに向かって歩いていった。

3.a herd of bison

群れの野牛

4.a herd of cattle

群れの牛

5.a herd of deer

鹿の群れ