skirt

• スカート
• vt.回り込む、避ける；端に横たわる
• vi.沿う；回る；取り囲む

シャツという語形からスカートという語形になり、後に語彙的な分化を生んだ。男性用シャツに使われるこの語は、女性用スカート、ヘムラインに使われ、その延長で、アウトスカート、郊外、郊外のように、バッフル、スキール、包囲などの比喩的な意味にも使われる。

skirt

skirt: [13] Essentially skirt is the same word as shirt. It was borrowed from Old Norse skyrta ‘shirt’, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic source as English shirt, and likewise meant etymologically ‘short garment’. It is not clear why English came to use the word for ‘woman’s garment hanging from the waist’, but a link may be provided by modern Icelandic skyrta, which denotes a sort of long shirt with full tails that come down well below the waist. Swedish sk?rt and Danish sk?rt ‘skirt’ were borrowed from the related Middle Low German schorte ‘apron’.
=> shear, shirt, short

skirt (n.)

early 14c., "lower part of a woman's dress," from Old Norse skyrta "shirt, a kind of kirtle;" see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (compare Low German cognate Sch?rt, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded late 15c. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1550s; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.

skirt (v.)

c. 1600, "to border, form the edge of," from skirt (n.). Meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1620s. Related: Skirted; skirting.

1. She wore a thick tartan skirt and a red cashmere sweater.

彼女は厚い格子のスカートと赤いカシミヤのシャツを着ていた。

2.She idly pulled at a loose thread on her skirt .

彼女はスカートの上の緩んだ糸の頭を退屈そうに引っ張っていた。

3.This woman wore seamed nylons and kept smoothing her skirt .

この女性は長いナイロンのストッキングをはいて、スカートを平らにしています。

4.She was wearing a white ruffled blouse and a blue vet skirt .

彼女はレースのある白い上着と青いビロードのスカートを着ている。

5.From her tiny waist a crinolined skirt cascaded in three deep tiers.

スカートスタンドを支えた三重の大きなスカートが彼女のウエストから垂れ下がっている。