mew

• n. カモメ；鷲の檻；隠れ家；鳴き声
• vi.鳴く；羽を換える
• vt.ケージに入れる
• n.（ミュウ）人の名前；（英）ミュウ

猫の鳴き声を模した擬音語。ニャーと比較する。

古フランス語のmueから、ハヤブサの檻、特にハヤブサが羽を換える場所、ラテン語のmutareの羽を換える、muerから、語源的にはmutableの脱皮と同じ。

mew (v.)

"make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen, of imitative origin (compare German miauen, French miauler, Italian miagolare, Spanish maullar, and see meow). Related: Mewed; mewing. As a noun from 1590s.

mew (n.1)

"seagull," Old English m?w, from Proto-Germanic *maigwis (cognates: Old Saxon mew, Frisian meau, Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mewe, Dutch meeuw "gull"), imitative of its cry. Old French moue (Modern French mouette) and Lithuanian mevas are Germanic loan-words.

mew (n.2)

"cage," c. 1300, from Old French mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable).

1. We heard the mew of a cat.

私たちは猫の鳴き声を聞いた.

2.The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let out a purr and a mew .

その猫は体の大きな腰の丸いグリズリーに近づき、「ニャー」、「ニャー」と鳴いている。