snail

• n. カタツムリ；のろま
• vi. ゆっくり動く
• vt. ゆっくり動く

古英語のsnaegl「カタツムリ」から、原ゲルマン語*snagila「カタツムリ」、PIE*sneg「這う」「身を寄せる」から、語源はsnake「忍び寄る」と同じ。

snail

snail: [OE] Snail, like German dialect schn?gel, Swedish snigel, and Danish snegl, comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *snag-, *sneg- ‘crawl’, which also produced German schnecke ‘snail’ and English snake. Lithuanian snāke ‘snail’ is a distant relative.
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snail (n.)

Old English sn?gl, from Proto-Germanic *snagila (cognates: Old Saxon snegil, Old Norse snigill, Danish snegl, Swedish snigel, Middle High German snegel, dialectal German Schnegel, Old High German snecko, German Schnecke "snail"), from *snog-, variant of PIE root *sneg- "to crawl, creep; creeping thing" (see snake (n.)). The word essentially is a diminutive form of Old English snaca "snake," which literally means "creeping thing." Also formerly used of slugs. Symbolic of slowness since at least c. 1000; snail's pace is attested from c. 1400.

1. The train was moving now at a snail 's pace.

列車は今、カタツムリのようにゆっくり歩いている。

2.The snail left a trail of slime along the floor.

カタツムリは床に粘液を残した。

3.I confess it with shame--shrunk icily into myself，like a snail .

私は恥ずかしくて懺悔しました——冷たく萎縮して、カタツムリのようです.

4.Time moved at a snail 's pace before the holidays.

休みになるまでの時間の流れが遅い。

5. Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.

カタツムリは軟体食動物である。