lurch

• n. 突然の傾き；つまずき；挫折
• vi.傾く；つまずく
• vt.打ち負かす
• n. （ラーチ）人の名前；（ドイツ語）Lürsch.

中英語のlurch、ボードゲーム、lurenの「待つ」「潜む」「待ち伏せる」が語源で、語源的にはlourのlurkと同じ。

起源は不明だが、船が風や波で激しく揺れたり傾いたりすることを指す海事用語で、おそらくlurch、遭難、危険からきている。

lurch

lurch: English has two words lurch, both with rather obscure histories. The verb, ‘stagger’ [19], appears to come from an earlier lee-lurch, which in turn may have been an alteration of an 18th-century nautical term lee-latch, denoting ‘drifting to leeward’. The latch element may have come from French lacher ‘let go’. The lurch of leave someone in the lurch [16] originated as a term in backgammon, denoting a ‘defeat’, ‘low score’, or ‘position of disadvantage’. It was borrowed from French lourche, which probably goes back to Middle High German lurz ‘left’, hence ‘wrong’, ‘defeat’.

lurch (n.1)

"sudden pitch to one side," 1784, from earlier lee-larches (1765), a nautical term for "the sudden roll which a ship makes to lee-ward in a high sea, when a large wave strikes her, and bears her weather-side violently up, which depresses the other in proportion" ["Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences," London 1765]; perhaps from French lacher "to let go," from Latin laxus (see lax).

When a Ship is brought by the Lee, it is commonly occa?sioned by a large Sea, and by the Neglect of the Helm's-man. When the Wind is two or three Points on the Quarter, the Ship taking a Lurch, brings the Wind on the other Side, and lays the Sails all dead to the Ma?t; as the Yards are braced up, ?he then having no Way, and the Helm being of no Service, I would therefore brace about the Head ?ails ?harp the other Way .... [John Hamilton Moore, Practical Navigator, 8th ed., 1784]

lurch (n.2)

"predicament," 1580s, from Middle English lurch (v.) "to beat in a game of skill (often by a great many points)," mid-14c., probably literally "to make a complete victory in lorche," a game akin to backgammon, from Old French lourche. The game name is perhaps related to Middle English lurken, lorken "to lie hidden, lie in ambush," or it may be adopted into French from Middle High German lurz "left," also "wrong."

lurch (v.)

1821, from lurch (n.1). Related: Lurched; lurching.

1. You wouldn 't leave an old friend in the lurch ，surely？

あなたはいつも古い友達を見殺しにしないでしょうか？

2.The car took a lurch forward but grounded in a deep rut.

車は急に前に動いたが、その後深い轍にはまった。

3.The ship gave a lurch to starboard.

船の右舷が急に傾いた。

4.The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.

不動産業は金利の高騰に影響を受けたもう一つの被災地である。

5.I wonder what he made that lurch for,he thought.

この魚がなぜさっき急に揺れたのか、彼は思った。dd>

-老人と海