shimmer

• n. きらめき；閃光
• vi.閃光を放つ；チラチラと煌めきを発する
• vt.点滅させる

古英語のscimerian「きらめく、閃く」から、原語ゲルマン語*skim「輝く、きらめく」から、PIE*skai「輝く、きらめく」から、語源的にはshine, sheen.-er「繰り返す」と同じ。

shimmer

shimmer: [OE] Shimmer goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skim- (source also of German schimmern ‘glitter, gleam’). This was an extension of the base *ski-, from which English gets sheer and shine.
=> sheer, shine

shimmer (n.)

"a tremulous light," 1821, from shimmer (v.).

shimmer (v.)

Old English scimerian "to glitter, shimmer, glisten, shine," related to (perhaps a frequentative of) scimian "to shine," from Proto-Germanic *skim- (cognates: Swedish skimra, Dutch schemeren "to glitter," German schimmern), from PIE root *skai- "to gleam, to shine" (see shine (v.). Related: Shimmered; shimmering.

1. Besides，the Shimmer and NNE are more sensitive and have diagnosis value.ここで shimmer とNNEは感度が高く、診断価値がある。

2.The jewel has a beautiful shimmer .

その宝石は美しい閃光を持っている.

3.The room was dark，but there was a shimmer of moonlight at the window.

部屋の中は暗いが、窓に近いところは少し光がある。

4.He had melted off into the surface- shimmer of the desert,into the mirage.

彼は砂漠のきらきらとした熱い空気の中で溶け、蜃気楼の幻の中で消えた。

5.The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable.

海面には微光が広がり、不思議な色が輝いている。