mow

• n. 草の山；もみ；穀物の山
• vt.草を刈る；作物を収穫する
• vi.草を刈る；作物を収穫する
• n.（Mow）人名；（英）Mow

古英語のmmawan「刈る」から。PIE*me「刈る」、「草を刈る」、「穀物を刈る」に由来し、おそらく擬音語で、語源的にはmeadowと同じ。

mow (v.)

Old English mawan "to mow" (class VII strong verb; past tense meow, past participle mawen), from Proto-Germanic *m?anan (cognates: Middle Low German maeyen, Dutch maaien, Old High German maen, German m?hen "to mow," Old English m?d "meadow"), from PIE root *me- (4) "to mow, to cut grass or grain" (cognates: poetic Greek amao, Latin metere "to reap, mow, crop," Italian mietere, Old Irish meithleorai "reapers," Welsh medi). Related: Mowed; mown; mowing.

mow (n.)

"stack of hay," Old English muga, muwa "a heap, swath of corn, crowd of people," earlier muha, from Proto-Germanic *mugon (cognates: Old Norse mugr "a heap," mostr "crowd"), of uncertain origin.

1. He continued to mow the lawn and do other routine chores.

彼は芝生を切り続け、他の日常の雑務をしています。

2.In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.

夏は週に2回芝生を刈らなければなりません。

3.I mow the lawn every week in summer.

夏は毎週芝生を刈り込みます。

4.The proposed amalgamation of the two institutes has mow fallen through.

この2つの研究所が合併しようとしていたことは今では外れている。

5.He hired a man to mow the lawn.

彼は人を雇って草刈りをした。