knife

• n. ナイフ；短剣
• vt.ナイフで切る；口で傷つける
• vi.切り裂く

古英語のcnif（ナイフ、短剣）から。

knife

knife: [11] Knife is not a native English word, but a borrowing. It came from Old Norse knífr, which survives also in modern Swedish knif and Danish knif. It can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *knībaz, which also produced German kneif ‘cobbler’s knife’, and was borrowed by French as canif ‘knife’, but its previous ancestry is not known.

knife (n.)

late Old English cnif, probably from Old Norse knifr, from Proto-Germanic *knibaz (cognates: Middle Low German knif, Middle Dutch cnijf, German kneif), of uncertain origin. To further confuse the etymology, there also are forms in -p-, such as Dutch knijp, German kneip. French canif "penknife" (mid-15c.) is borrowed from Middle English or Norse.

knife (v.)

1865, from knife (n.). Related: Knifed; knifing.

1. She produced the knife during arguments with her friends.

友人と口論している間に、彼女はナイフを取り出した。

2.The knife stuck in the ground at his feet.

ナイフが彼の足元の地面に刺さった。

3.His surgical instruments were a knife and a pair of pincers.

彼の外科手術器具はナイフとペンチです。dd>

4.He picked up the knife and gave it to me.

ナイフを拾って渡してくれた。

5.Lightly score the surface of the steaks with a knife .

ステーキの表面にナイフを軽く打ちます。