niece

• n. 姪、姪っ子
• n. （姪）人の名前；（英）Ness.

古フランス語の niece, 姪, 孫娘, niepce から。ラテン語の neptia, 孫娘, -a, 女性, 語源的には nephew と同じだが、後に nieces, nephews だけに使われるようになった。

niece

niece: [13] Niece comes ultimately from *neptī-, the feminine form of Indo-European *nepōt- (source of English nephew). This passed into Latin as neptis ‘granddaughter, niece’, which in post-classical times became *neptia. Old French took it over as niece – whence English niece. *Neptī- also had a Germanic descendant, *niptiz, which now survives only in German nichte and Dutch nicht ‘niece’.
=> nephew

niece (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French niece "niece, granddaughter" (12c., Modern French nièce), earlier niepce, from Latin neptia (also source of Portuguese neta, Spanish nieta), a more decidedly feminine form of neptis "granddaughter," in Late Latin "niece," fem. of nepos "grandson, nephew" (see nephew). Replaced Old English nift, from Proto-Germanic *neftiz, from the same PIE root (Old English also used broeordohter and nefene).

Until c. 1600, it also commonly meant "a granddaughter" or any remote female descendant. Cognate with Spanish nieta, Old Lithuanian nepte, Sanskrit naptih "granddaughter;" Czech net, Old Irish necht, Welsh nith, German Nichte "niece."

1. He looked affectionately at his niece .

彼は姪を慈しみ深く見ている。

2.My niece was left in my trust for the weekend.

週末に甥の世話を頼まれた。

3.He adopts his niece as his heiress.

彼は姪を相続人として指定した。

4.Mary left her most precious possession-a small bookcase to her niece .

メアリーは彼女が最も大切にしている財産である小さな本棚を姪に残した。

5.This year all the apples are all red.My niece and nephew are going out this morning with step-ladders to pick some.

今年はすべてのりんごが赤くなった。姪と甥は今朝はしごを持って行って摘み取るつもりです。