sloe

• n. ブラックソーン?プラム；ワイルド?プラム

古英語のslah、blackthornから。原語のゲルマン語 *slaikhwon、PIE *sleie、青、青黒、語源はlivid、緑がかった紫、赤褐色と同じ。この低木植物の黒い茎から名付けられた。

sloe

sloe: [OE] Etymologically, the sloe is probably the ‘blue-black’ fruit. The word comes, along with its relatives German schlehe, Dutch slee, Swedish sl?, and Danish slaa, from a prehistoric Germanic *slaikhwōn, which has been linked with Latin līvēre ‘be blue-black’ (source of English livid [17]). Another close relative is Serbo-Croat shljiva ‘plum’, whose derivative shljivovica ‘plum brandy’ has given English slivovitz [19].
=> livid, slivovitz

sloe (n.)

fruit of the blackthorn, Old English slah (plural slan), from Proto-Germanic *slaikhwon (cognates: Middle Dutch sleeu, Dutch slee, Old High German sleha, German Schlehe), from PIE *sleie- "blue, bluish, blue-black" (see livid).

The vowel has been influenced by that in the old plural form, which according to OED persisted into the 17c. Scottish slae preserves the older vowel. Sloe-eyed is attested from 1804; sloe gin first recorded 1878.

1. She has a mane of black hair， sloe eyes a fetching smile and a cute giggle.

彼女の黒髪、黒光りした目、人を魅了する笑顔、銀鈴のような笑い声。