英単語

sowの意味・使い方・発音

sow

英 [səʊ] 美 [so]
  • vt.播種する;散布する;密集させる
  • vi.
  • n. sow
  • n. (ギニア、マリ、チャド、モーリタニア、セネガル)Sow.

語源


播種する

古英語のsawan「蒔く」、「種をまく」、「受精させる」、原ゲルマン語*sean「蒔く」から、PIE*se「蒔く」、語源的にはseed「種」、semen「精液」、season「季節」から。

種をまく。

中英語のsoweから、古英語のsugu, sowから、原語ゲルマン語*sugo, pigから、PIE*su, pigから、おそらく擬音語、豚のうなり声を真似たもの、語源はswineと同じ。

英語の語源


sow
sow: English has two words sow, both of which go back to the Old English period. The verb, ‘put seeds in the ground’, comes from a prehistoric Germanic *s?jan, which also produced German s?en, Dutch zaaien, Swedish s?, and Danish saa. It was formed from the base *s?- (source of English seed), which goes back ultimately to Indo-European *- (source of English season, semen, etc). Sow ‘female pig’ is descended from an Indo-European base *su- (possibly imitative of the noise made by a pig), which also produced Greek hus ‘pig’ (whose feminine form húaina is the source of English hyena [16]), Latin sūs ‘pig’, German sau ‘sow’, and English swine.
=> season, seed, semen; hyena, swine
sow (v.)
Old English sawan "to scatter seed upon the ground or plant it in the earth, disseminate" (class VII strong verb; past tense seow, past participle sawen), from Proto-Germanic *sean (cognates: Old Norse sa, Old Saxon saian, Middle Dutch sayen, Dutch zaaien, Old High German sawen, German s?en, Gothic saian), from PIE root *se- (1) "to sow" (cognates: Latin sero, past tense sevi, past participle satum "to sow;" Old Church Slavonic sejo, sejati; Lithuanian seju, seti "to sow"), source of semen, season (n.), seed (n.), etc. Figurative sense was in Old English.
sow (n.)
Old English sugu, su "female of the swine," from Proto-Germanic *su- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German su, German Sau, Dutch zeug, Old Norse syr), from PIE root *su- (cognates: Sanskrit sukarah "wild boar, swine;" Avestan hu "wild boar;" Greek hys "swine;" Latin sus "swine," swinus "pertaining to swine;" Old Church Slavonic svinija "swine;" Lettish sivens "young pig;" Welsh hucc, Irish suig "swine; Old Irish socc "snout, plowshare"), possibly imitative of pig noise, a notion reinforced by the fact that Sanskrit sukharah means "maker of (the sound) 'su.' " Related to swine. As a term of abuse for a woman, attested from c. 1500. Sow-bug "hog louse" is from 1750.

例文


1. Sow the seeds in drills about 1/2 in.deep and 12 in.apart.
深さ約0.5インチ、12インチ間隔のストリップ播種溝に播種した。

2. Sow the seed in a warm place in February/March.
2月または3月に種を暖かい場所に播種した。

3.The kids need to sow a few wild oats.
これらの若者は放縦にする必要があります。

4.The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market.
これらの子豚は雌豚のそばから連れ去られ、肥育して出荷された。

5. Sow the seeds in rows.
1畝ずつ播種する。

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