sheet

• n. シーツ、紙；シート；ベッドシーツ
• vt.シーツで覆う；大きなシーツにする
• シート状に流れる；シート状に落ちる
• adj.
• n. （シート）人の名前；（英）Hitt.

古英語のscete, 布, 覆い, から, 原語ゲルマン語*skauta, 投げる, 投射する, から, PIE*skeud, 撃つ, 発射する, から, shoot, shot, shut から.単語進化の比較 pork, 原義は豚、文字通りアーチを好む動物を意味し、語源的にはfurrow, ditch, ridgeと同じ。

sheet

sheet: Sheet ‘cloth’ [OE] and sheet ‘rope attached to a sail’ [OE] are distinct words, although they have a common ancestor. This was the Germanic base *skaut-, *skut- ‘project’, which also produced English scot-free, scuttle ‘sink a ship’, shoot, shot, shout, shut, and skit. This produced two Old English nouns, scēte ‘cloth’ and scēata ‘sail-rope’, which have formally coalesced in modern English as sheet, but retained their distinctive meanings. (Sheet ‘cloth’ was not used specifically for ‘bed sheet’ until the 13th century.)
=> scot-free, scuttle, shoot, shot, shout, shut, skit

sheet (n.1)

Old English sciete (West Saxon), scete (Mercian) "cloth, covering, towel, shroud," from Proto-Germanic *skautjon-, from *skauta- "project" (cognates: Old Norse skaut, Gothic skauts "seam, hem of a garment;" Dutch schoot; German Scho? "bosom, lap"), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot (v.)).

Sense of "piece of paper" first recorded c. 1500; that of "any broad, flat surface" (of metal, open water, etc.) is from 1590s. Of falling rain from 1690s. Meaning "a newspaper" is first recorded 1749. Sheet lightning is attested from 1794; sheet music is from 1857. Between the sheets "in bed" (usually with sexual overtones) is attested from 1590s; to be white as a sheet is from 1751. The first element in sheet-anchor (late 15c.) appears to be a different word, of unknown origin.

sheet (n.2)

"rope that controls a sail," late 13c., shortened from Old English sceatline "sheet-line," from sceata "lower part of sail," originally "piece of cloth," from same root as sheet (n.1). Compare Old Norse skaut, Dutch schoot, German Schote "rope fastened to a sail."

This probably is the notion in phrase three sheets to the wind "drunk and disorganized," first recorded 1812 (in form three sheets in the wind), an image of a sloop-rigged sailboat whose three sheets have slipped through the blocks are lost to the wind, thus "out of control." Apparently there was an early 19c. informal drunkenness scale in use among sailors and involving one, two, and three sheets, three signifying the highest degree of inebriation; there is a two sheets in the wind from 1813.

It must not be wondered at that the poor, untutored, savage Kentuckyan got "more than two thirds drunk," that is, as the sailors term it, three sheets in the wind and the fourth shivering, before the dinner was ended. [Niles' Weekly Register, May 2, 1812]

1. Drop the dough onto a baking sheet with a teaspoon.

生生地をスプーンで焼き皿にすくった。

2.His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet .

彼の頭にはシーツで裂いた包帯が巻きつけられている。

3.Under the newspaper，atop a sheet of paper，lay an envelope.

新聞の下の1枚の紙に封筒が置いてある。

4.Vinyl can be laid in sheet or tile form.

プラスチック床は、コイルとブロックの2種類がある。

5.A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet -metal roofing.

激しい風が屋根に敷かれた金属片を巻き上げた。