meadow

• n. 草原; 牧草地
• n.(Meadow)人名;(Eng.)草地。

古英語maedweから、原ゲルマン語*medwoから、PIE *metwa、刈り取られた草、*me、草を刈る、穀物を刈るから、おそらくオノマトペから。最終的な語彙的意味は草そのものへと発展した。pork,farrow,furrowと比較される。

meadow

meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *m?dwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as m?d. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, m?dwe, has become modern English meadow.
=> mow

meadow (n.)

Old English m?dwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of m?d (see mead (n.2)).

1. In the spring，the meadow is a mass of daffodils.

春、芝生には黄水仙がいっぱい咲いている。

2.We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow .

私たちは平底の長い船に乗ってグランチェスターまで遡って、芝生の上でピクニックをしました。

3.lambs gambolling in the meadow

芝生の上でぴょんぴょん跳ねる子羊

4.The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.

風がタンポポの種を芝生に吹き付ける。

5.The children ran free across the meadow .

子供たちは芝生の中を自由に走っている。