英単語

howの意味・使い方・発音

how

英 [haʊ] 美 [haʊ]
  • adv. どのように; どのくらい; どのように
  • n. 方法
  • conj.
  • n. (How)人の名前;(Eng.)

語源


どのように

古英語 hu から、原ゲルマン語*hwo から、PIE*kwo から、疑問代名詞、語源は what, why, where と同じ。

英語の語源


how
how: [OE] How belongs to the large family of question-words which in Indo-European began with qw- (as in English quantity, query, etc). The phonetic descendant of this in prehistoric Germanic was khw-, which in modern English is represented by wh-. How itself comes from a West Germanic adverb *khwō formed from the base that also produced English what and who; like who it has lost its /w/ sound, but since who did not lose it until considerably later the spelling wh remains as a reminder of it.

The how! with which North American Indians supposedly greet each other is not the same word, incidentally. It is an imitation of a Sioux word, such as Dakota háo or Omaha hau.

=> what, who
how (adv.)
Old English hu, from Proto-Germanic *hwo- (cognates: Old Saxon hwo, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch hu. Dutch hoe, German wie, Gothic hvaiwa "how"), from common PIE interrogative pronominal stem *kwo- (see who). How come? for "why?" is recorded from 1848. And how! emphatic, first recorded 1865. The formulation was common in book and article titles by then (such as The National Debt, and How to Pay It), but Pennsylvania writer Bayard Taylor, in whom it is first recorded, seems to regard it as a German or German-American expression.
how (interj.)
Native American greeting, Siouxan (Dakota hao, Omaha hau); first recorded 1817 in English, but noted early 17c. by French missionary Jean de Brebeuf among Hurons as an expression of approval (1636).

例文


1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get,there 's always something new to learn about.After all,life is full of surprises.
どこに住んでいても、あなたは何歳になっても、いつも新しいことを学ぶ必要があります。結局、生活はいつも驚きに満ちています。

毎日一言


2.I know how to darn,and how to sew a button on on.
私はパッチを当てて、ボタンを縫うことができます。

3.You must have noticed how tired he sometimes looks.
彼がとても疲れていることに気づいているに違いありません。

4.I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.
状況を大まかに理解するのがどれだけ難しいか。

5. How are you Lennox?Good to see you up and about.
あなたはどうですか、レノックス?ベッドから降りて歩くことができて嬉しいです。

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