古英語のleger, bed, to lie down, to placeから。語源的にはlager,layと同じ。fair spellingと比較。
英語の語源
lair
lair: [OE] Etymologically a lair is a place where you ‘lie’ down. For it comes ultimately from the same Germanic base, *leg-, as produced English lie. In Old English it had a range of meanings, from ‘bed’ to ‘grave’, which are now defunct, and the modern sense ‘place where an animal lives’ did not emerge until the 15th century. Related Germanic forms show different patterns of semantic development: Dutch leger, for instance, means ‘bed’ and ‘camp’ (it has given English beleaguer [16] and, via Afrikaans, laager [19]) and German lager (source of English lager) means ‘bed’, ‘camp’, and ‘storeroom’. Layer in the sense ‘stratum’ [17] (which to begin with was a culinary term) may have originated as a variant of lair. => beleaguer, laager, lager, lay, layer, lie
lair (n.)
Old English leger "bed, couch, grave; act or place of lying down," from Proto-Germanic *legraz (cognates: Old Norse legr "grave," also "nuptials" ("a lying down"); Old Frisian leger "situation," Old Saxon legar "bed," Middle Dutch legher "act or place of lying down," Dutch leger "bed, camp," Old High German legar "bed, a lying down," German Lager "bed, lair, camp, storehouse," Gothic ligrs "place of lying"), from PIE *legh- "to lie, lay" (see lie (v.2)). Meaning "animal's den" is from early 15c.
例文
1. Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair .
Greenは、ブリンナーの隠れ家に行って彼を見た経験を語った。
2.How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger 's lair ？
虎の穴に入らず、虎の子を得たのか？
3.I retired to my lair ，and wrote some letters.
私は自分の休憩所に戻って、いくつかの手紙を書きました。
4.One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair 、she saw a lioness and her cub.