mareの意味・使い方・発音

mare

英 [meə] 美 [mɛr]

牝馬、牝ロバ

古英語の mere から。mearh の女性形で、原ゲルマン語の *markhjon に由来する。この語は古ガリア語の語源に由来すると考える学者もいれば、最終的には支那チベット語族、すなわちma（馬）に由来すると考える学者もいる。

mare月の海、月の表面の暗い部分

lunar mare, moon seaから略され、月、moon、mare、sea、語源的にはmarineと同じ。

mare、夜の悪魔。

古英語のmare, devil, night demon, dream demonから、原ゲルマン語*maron, goblinから、PIE*mer, to harm, to killから、mortal, murderから。

mare: mare: see marshal
mare (n.1): "female horse," Old English mere (Mercian), myre (West Saxon), fem. of mearh "horse," from Proto-Germanic *markhjon- (cognates: Old Saxon meriha, Old Norse merr, Old Frisian merrie, Dutch merrie, Old High German meriha, German M?hre "mare"), said to be of Gaulish origin (compare Irish and Gaelic marc, Welsh march, Breton marh "horse"). No known cognates beyond Germanic and Celtic. As the name of a throw in wrestling, it is attested from c. 1600. Mare's nest "illusory discovery, excitement over something which does not exist" is from 1610s.
mare (n.2): "broad, dark areas of the moon," 1765, from Latin mare "sea" (see marine), applied to lunar features by Galileo and used thus in 17c. Latin works. They originally were thought to be actual seas.
mare (n.3): "night-goblin, incubus," Old English mare "incubus, nightmare, monster," from mera, m?re, from Proto-Germanic *maron "goblin" (cognates: Middle Low German mar, Middle Dutch mare, Old High German mara, German Mahr "incubus," Old Norse mara "nightmare, incubus"), from PIE *mora- "incubus" (cognates: first element in Old Irish Morrigain "demoness of the corpses," literally "queen of the nightmare," also Bulgarian, Serbian mora, Czech mura, Polish zmora "incubus;" French cauchemar, with first element from Old French caucher "to trample"), from root *mer- "to rub away, harm" (see morbid).

1. The mare neighed once more，turned and disappeared amongst the trees.: 牝馬はまた一声鳴き、頭をひねって森の中に消えた。

3.He is currently starring in pantomime in Weston-super- Mare .: 彼は現在、浜海ウェストンでクリスマス童話ドラマに主演している。

4.The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.

その牝馬は厩舎で小さな馬を産んだばかりだ。

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