kindergarten

• 幼稚園

ドイツ語、Kind, child, childrenから、PIE *gene, to give birth to, to be born, 語源的にはkinと同じ、-er, 複数形の接尾辞、Garten, garden, 語源的にはgardenと同じ。すなわち、子供の庭、または子供の庭、比喩的に言えば、庭の中の花を扱うように子供を扱うこと。

kindergarten (n.)

1852, from German, literally "children's garden," from Kinder "children" (plural of Kind "child;" see kin (n.)) + Garten "garden" (see yard (n.1)). Coined 1840 by German educator Friedrich Fr?bel (1782-1852) in reference to his method of developing intelligence in young children.

Kindergarten means a garden of children, and Froebel, the inventor of it, or rather, as he would prefer to express it, the discoverer of the method of Nature, meant to symbolize by the name the spirit and plan of treatment. How does the gardener treat his plants? He studies their individual natures, and puts them into such circumstances of soil and atmosphere as enable them to grow, flower, and bring forth fruit,-- also to renew their manifestation year after year. [Mann, Horace, and Elizabeth P. Peabody, "Moral Culture of Infancy and Kindergarten Guide," Boston, 1863]

The first one in England was established 1850 by Johannes Ronge, German Catholic priest; in America, 1868, by Elizabeth Peabody of Boston, Mass. Taken into English untranslated, whereas other nations that borrowed the institution nativized the name (Danish b?rnehave, Modern Hebrew gan yeladim, literally "garden of children"). Sometimes partially anglicized as kindergarden (attested by 1879).

1. Children graduate to the kindergarten ，then pre-school，and then school.

子供たちはまず幼稚園に行って、それから学校の前のクラスに行って、それから小学校に行きます。

2.She 's in kindergarten now.

彼女は現在幼稚園に通っている。

3.The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten .

その子供は幼稚園の玄関で誘拐された。

4.The children learn singing，dancing，drawing，and the like in the kindergarten .

子供たちは幼稚園で歌、ダンス、絵などを習っている。

5.Little tykes play in kindergarten .

子供が幼稚園で遊んでいる。