steep

• adj.急な；不合理な；誇張された；鋭く高められた
• vt.浸す；浸す；満たす
• vi.浸す；浸す
• n. 崖；窪み

古英語のsteapから、高くそびえ立つ、深い、顕著な、原語ゲルマン語の*staupazから、高い、深い、PIE *steupから、押す、打つ、打つ、刺す、語源的にはstoop、研究、型と同じstoopからの拡大形。

steep

steep: English has two words steep. The adjective, ‘precipitous’ [OE], originally meant ‘very high’. It came from the prehistoric Germanic base *staup-, *stūp-, which also produced English steeple [OE] (etymologically a ‘high’ tower) and stoop [OE]. The verb steep ‘soak’ [14] probably came via an unrecorded Old English *stīepan from prehistoric Germanic *staupjan. This was formed from the base *staup-, *stup-, which also produced English stoup ‘water vessel’ [14] (a borrowing from Old Norse).
=> steeple, stoop, stoup

steep (adj.)

"having a sharp slope," Old English steap "high, lofty; deep; prominent, projecting," from Proto-Germanic *staupaz (cognates: Old Frisian stap "high, lofty," Middle High German *stouf), from PIE *steup-, extended form of root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat," with derivations referring to projecting objects (cognates: Greek typtein "to strike," typos "a blow, mold, die;" Sanskrit tup- "harm," tundate "pushes, stabs;" Gothic stautan "push;" Old Norse stuttr "short"). The sense of "precipitous" is from c. 1200. The slang sense "at a high price" is a U.S. coinage first attested 1856. Related: Steeply; steepness. The noun meaning "steep place" is from 1550s.

steep (v.)

"to soak in a liquid," early 14c., of uncertain origin, originally in reference to barley or malt, probably cognate with Old Norse steypa "to pour out, throw" (perhaps from an unrecorded Old English cognate), from Proto-Germanic *staupijanan. Related: Steeped; steeping.

1. She started once again on the steep upward climb.

彼女はまた険しい山道を登り始めた。

2.Both he and the crew are on a steep learning curve.

彼もメンバーたちも勉強が速い。

3.San Francisco is built on 40 hills and some are very steep .

サンフランシスコは40の小さな丘の上に建てられており、その中のいくつかは非常に険しい。

4.The Newton Hotel is halfway up a steep hill.

リドンホテルは険しい山の中腹に位置している。

5.The men had to slog up a steep muddy incline.

人々は険しくぬかるんだ斜面を困難に進むしかなかった。