moult
英 [məʊlt]
美 [molt]
- 脱皮する。
- vt. 脱皮する；脱皮する
- n. 脱皮する
- n. （脱皮する）人の名前。
語源
moult：羽毛が抜ける、毛が生え変わる。moldのイギリス綴りの形から。
英語の語源
- moult
- moult: [14] The etymological meaning of moult is simply ‘change’. It comes (via an assumed but never recorded Old English *mūtian) from a prehistoric Germanic verb borrowed from Latin mūtāre ‘change’ (source of English mutate). The extreme semantic narrowing down from ‘change’ to ‘change a coat of feathers’ is shown too in the related mews, which originally denoted ‘cages for moulting hawks’. The spelling with l, which started to appear in the 16th century, is due to association with words such as fault, whose l at that time was generally not pronounced. When it began to be, moult followed suit.
=> mews, mutate - moult
- see molt.
例文
- 1. Finches start to moult at around twelve weeks of age.
- 燕雀は約12週間の大きさで羽を交換し始めた。