skirmish

• n. 小競り合い、小競り合い；小競り合い
• vi.小競り合いをする；小競り合いをする

古フランス語のescarmouche（小競り合い）から広まった綴りで、イタリア語のscaramuccia（小競り合い）、原ゲルマン語*skerm（切り刻む、切り刻む）、PIE*sker（切り刻む、切り刻む）から、scar（切り刻む、切り刻む）と語源は同じ。長。

skirmish

skirmish: [14] English adapted skirmish from eskermiss-, the present stem of Old French eskermir ‘fight with a sword’. This in turn went back to a Frankish *skirmjan, a relative of modern German schirmen. A variant of skirmish arose with the i and r sounds reversed, giving scrimish, which is the source of modern English scrimmage [15] and also of scrummage [19] and its abbreviation scrum [19].
=> scrimmage, scrummage

skirmish (n.)

late 14c., from Old French escarmouche "skirmish," from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio, probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German skirmen "to protect, defend"), with a diminutive or depreciatory suffix, from Proto-Germanic *skerm-, from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).

Influenced in Middle English by a separate verb skirmysshen "to brandish a weapon," from Old French eskirmiss-, stem of eskirmir "to fence," from Frankish *skirmjan, from the same Germanic source. Compare scrimmage. Other modern Germanic forms have an additional diminutive affix: German scharmützel, Dutch schermutseling, Danish skj?rmydsel. Skirmish-line attested by 1864.

skirmish (v.)

c. 1200, from Old French escarmouchier, from Italian scaramucciare (see skirmish (n.)). Related: Skirmished; skirmishing.

1. There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.

薄暗い夜に小規模な戦いがあった。

2.The verbal skirmish is viewed as the opening round in negotiation schedules to start next Tuesday.

この論争は来週火曜日に予定されている交渉の序幕と見なされている。

3.A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

伝統的な小規模戦闘は核戦争にエスカレートする可能性が高い。

4.We won a skirmish ，and we 'll win him some more.

私たちは小さな戦いに勝って、また彼に何戦か勝つ必要があります。

5.He was shot in a skirmish with the enemy.

敵との小さな衝突で撃たれた。