rummage

• vt.調べる；探し出す；注意深く探す；探し出す
• n. 物をあさる；調べる；見いだす；拾い集める
• vi. 探し回る；精査する

rum-、部屋、部屋、語源はroomと同じ、-age、名詞の接尾辞。原義は、船倉に積荷がしっかり固定されているかどうかを確認することであるが、派生した意味は、物色する、捜索することである。

rummage

rummage: [16] Rummage is etymologically ‘roomage’. It originally denoted the ‘stowage of cargo in a ship’s hold’. It came from Anglo- Norman *rumage, a reduced form of Old French arrumage. This was derived from the verb arrumer ‘stow in a hold’, which itself was based on run ‘ship’s hold’. And this in turn was borrowed from Middle Dutch ruim ‘space’, a relative of English room. The verb rummage, derived from the noun, was also used for ‘search a ship’s hold’, which is where the modern notion of ‘rummaging around’ comes from.
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rummage (v.)

1540s, "arrange (cargo) in a ship," from rummage (n.), 1520s, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," a shortening of Middle French arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow goods in the hold of a ship," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Germanic (compare Old Norse rum "compartment in a ship," Old High German rum "space," Old English rum; see room (n.)). Or else from English room (n.) + -age.

Meaning "to search closely (the hold of a ship), especially by moving things about" first recorded 1610s. Related: Rummaged; rummaging. Rummage sale (1803) originally was a sale at docks of unclaimed goods.

1. They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.

彼らは中古の服の山の中で体に合った服を探している。

2.A brief rummage will provide several pairs of gloves.

少しめくるだけで、手袋がいくつか見つかります。

3.Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.

マリアンナは冷蔵庫でひっくり返した。

4.He had a good rummage inside the sofa.

彼はソファの内部を徹底的に探した。

5.Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.

マリンズは机の上の散らかった書類の中をひっくり返し始めた。