paddock

• n. パドック；小さな牧草地
• n.(パドック)人名; (英語、スウェーデン語)Paddock.

中英語のparrock（庭、柵）から、語源的にはparkと同じ。後世の派生語で、馬のための小さなパドック。d,rの音変化、meridian, middleと比較。 -ock,小さな単語の接尾辞、語源はhillockと同じ。

paddock

paddock: [17] Paddock is ultimately the same word as park. Their common ancestor was a prehistoric Germanic word which took a route through Latin and French to reach English as park. Its direct Old English descendant, however, was pearruc. This in due course became parrock, which survived dialectally into the 20th century. But in the early modern English period a variant form paddock appeared. It is not clear how this arose, but it may be a hypercorrect form reflecting the change in the opposite direction, from /d/ to /r/, in words such as porridge for pottage and geraway for get away.
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paddock (n.1)

"a frog, a toad," c. 1300, diminutive of pad "toad," from Old Norse padda; common Germanic (Swedish padda, Danish padde, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch padde "frog, toad," also Dutch schildpad "tortoise"), of unknown origin and with no certain cognates outside Germanic.

paddock (n.2)

"an enclosure," 1620s, alteration of Middle English parrock, from Old English pearroc "enclosed space, fence" (see park (n.)). Or possibly from Medieval Latin parricus (8c.), which ultimately is from Germanic.

1. Vaulting the stile，heheaded diagonally across the paddock .

寝返りを打ってフェンスを飛び越えると、彼はフェンスを斜めに通り抜ける方向に歩いて行った。

2.The family kept horses in the paddock in front of the house.

その家は馬を家の前の小さな囲い場に飼っている。

3.Their paddock measures 24 metres square.

彼らの囲い場は24メートル四方である。

4.I rode bareback to the paddock .

無鞍馬に乗って牧場に来ました。

5.He keeps horses in a paddock behind his house.

彼は馬を家の後ろの小さな囲い場に飼っている。