stalk

• n. （植物の）茎、稈；（葉、果実、花を支える）茎；追跡する；見上げる
• vt.追跡する、忍び寄る；闊歩する
• vi.高いストライドで歩く；忍び寄る、こっそり近づく

中英語のstalke（小さな棒、小さな柱）から、古英語のstalu（まっすぐな柱、立っている柱）から、原ゲルマン語*stallaz（置く、位置を固定する）から、PIE*stel（置く、立つ）から、語源はstall、standと同じ。

steal（盗む）、sneak（忍び寄る）、-k（強調する）、hear（聞く）、hark（吠える）、tell（伝える）、talk（話す）に由来する可能性がある。

stalk

stalk: English has two distinct words stalk. The noun, ‘plant stem’ [14], probably originated as a diminutive form of the now extinct stale ‘long handle’, a word distantly related to Greek steleá ‘handle’. The verb, ‘track stealthily’ [OE], goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *stalkōjan, which was formed from the same base as produced English steal. The sense ‘walk haughtily’, diametrically opposed to ‘track stealthily’, emerged in the 16th century.

stalk (n.)

"stem of a plant," early 14c., probably a diminutive (with -k suffix) of stale "one of the uprights of a ladder, handle, stalk," from Old English stalu "wooden part" (of a tool or instrument), from Proto-Germanic *stalla- (cognates: Old English steala "stalk, support," steall "place"), from PIE *stol-no-, suffixed form of *stol-, variant of root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)). Of similar structures in animals from 1826.

stalk (v.1)

"pursue stealthily," Old English -stealcian, as in bestealcian "to steal along, walk warily," from Proto-Germanic *stalkon, frequentative of PIE *stel-, possibly a variant of *ster- (3) "to rob, steal" (see steal (v.)). Compare hark/hear, talk/tell). In another view the Old English word might be from a sense of stalk (v.1), influenced by stalk (n.). Meaning "harass obsessively" first recorded 1991. Related: Stalked; stalking.

A stalking-horse in literal use was a horse draped in trappings and trained to allow a fowler to conceal himself behind it to get within range of the game; figurative sense of "person who participates in a proceeding to disguise its real purpose" is recorded from 1610s.

stalk (v.2)

"walk haughtily" (nearly the opposite meaning of stalk (v.1)), 1520s, perhaps from stalk (n.) with a notion of "long, awkward strides," or from Old English stealcung "a stalking, act of going stealthily," related to stealc "steep, lofty."

1. Once again there ' stalk of very dark days ahead.

また、これからの生活は非常に困難になるという噂がある。

2.The lion will often stalk its prey for hours.

ライオンは獲物を何時間もこっそり追跡することが多い。

3.A sesame stalk puts forth blossoms notch by notch，higher and higher.

ゴマ開花節高.

4.A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk .

長い茎の各節に薄い青色の花が生えています。

5.Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night.

警察は、夜にターゲットを追跡して犯行に及んだ悪党を待ち伏せしている。