moss

• n. 苔；泥沼
• vt.苔むす
• n.(モス)人の名前；(E,G,I,S,P,P,N,S)モス

古英語のmos, marsh, bogから、PIE*meusのmoisture, moistureが語源。

moss

moss: [OE] The prehistoric Germanic ancestor of moss was *musam. This had two distinct meanings: ‘swamp’ and ‘moss’. It is not altogether clear which was primary, but it seems more probable than not that ‘moss’ (a plant which frequents damp places) was derived from ‘swamp’. The only meaning recorded for its Old English descendant mos was ‘swamp’ (which survives in place-names), but no doubt ‘moss’ (not evidenced before the 14th century) was current too.

Words from the same ultimate source to have found their way into English include mire [14] (borrowed from Old Norse myrr ‘swamp’), mousse [19] (borrowed from French, which got it from Middle Low German mos ‘moss’), and litmus [16] (whose Old Norse source litmosi meant literally ‘dye-moss’ – litmus is a dye extracted from lichens).
=> litmus, mire, mousse

moss (n.)

Old English meos "moss," related to mos "bog," from Proto-Germanic *musan (cognates: Old High German mios, Danish mos, German Moos), also in part from Old Norse mosi "moss, bog," and Medieval Latin mossa "moss," from the same Germanic source, from PIE *meus- "damp," with derivatives referring to swamps and swamp vegetation (cognates: Latin muscus "moss," Lithuanian musai "mold, mildew," Old Church Slavonic muchu "moss").

Selden Moset te Marbelston tat men ofte treden. ["Piers Plowman," 1362]

All the Germanic languages have the word in both senses, which is natural because moss is the characteristic plant of boggy places. It is impossible to say which sense is original. Scott (1805) revived 17c. moss-trooper "freebooter infesting Scottish border marshes."

1. 「We 've got the car that killed Myra Moss ."-"What！"

「マイラ?モスを轢く車を見つけた。」-「本当だ！」

2. Moss had clamped an unexpectedly strong grip on his arm.

モスは突然彼の腕をしっかりつかんだ。

3.The moss was soft and furry to the touch.

コケは柔らかく、触ってみると綿毛のようだ。

4.Early work of Moss and Tansley used the formation as a unit.

Moss とTensleyの初期の研究は、グループ単位で行われていた。

5.Mrs. Moss apologized for her husband.

モス夫人は夫に謝罪した。