thing

• n. もの、こと、状況

古英語のthing, meeting, assembly, seminarから。語源は原ゲルマン語*thingam, assemblyで、語源はhustings, campaignと同じ。複合語のhustingsは、古英語のhusting、meeting、house、house、thing、assemblyに由来する。hustingsの語源はhusting, from house, house, thing, assembly.hustingsの語義はmeeting to discussから派生し、最終的にhustingsの語義は大きく拡大し、多くの具体的?抽象的な意味が派生している。

thing

thing: [OE] The ancestral meaning of thing is ‘time’: it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thingam, which was related to Gothic theihs ‘time’, and may come ultimately from the Indo- European base *ten- ‘stretch’ (source of English tend, tense, etc). In Germanic it evolved semantically via ‘appointed time’ to ‘judicial or legislative assembly’.

This was the meaning it originally had in English, and it survives in other Germanic languages (the Icelandic parliament is known as the Althing, literally ‘general assembly’). In English, however, it moved on through ‘subject for discussion at such an assembly’ to ‘subject in general, affair, matter’ and finally ‘entity, object’. (The ancient meaning ‘assembly’ is preserved in fossilized form in English husting, etymologically a ‘house assembly’).
=> husting

thing (n.)

Old English ting "meeting, assembly, council, discussion," later "entity, being, matter" (subject of deliberation in an assembly), also "act, deed, event, material object, body, being, creature," from Proto-Germanic *thingam "assembly" (cognates: Old Frisian thing "assembly, council, suit, matter, thing," Middle Dutch dinc "court-day, suit, plea, concern, affair, thing," Dutch ding "thing," Old High German ding "public assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit," German Ding "affair, matter, thing," Old Norse ting "public assembly"). The Germanic word is perhaps literally "appointed time," from a PIE *tenk- (1), from root *ten- "stretch," perhaps on notion of "stretch of time for a meeting or assembly."

The sense "meeting, assembly" did not survive Old English. For sense evolution, compare French chose, Spanish cosa "thing," from Latin causa "judicial process, lawsuit, case;" Latin res "affair, thing," also "case at law, cause." Old sense is preserved in second element of hustings and in Icelandic Althing, the nation's general assembly.

Of persons, often pityingly, from late 13c. Used colloquially since c. 1600 to indicate things the speaker can't name at the moment, often with various meaningless suffixes (see thingamajig). Things "personal possessions" is from c. 1300. The thing "what's stylish or fashionable" is recorded from 1762. Phrase do your thing "follow your particular predilection," though associated with hippie-speak of 1960s is attested from 1841.

1. The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.

未知の地帯に足を踏み入れる最善の対策は笑顔だ。

米ドラマ『キャリー?ダイアリー』

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2.「One thing you can never insure against is corruption among your staff."-"Agreed."

「いつまでも防ぎきれないのは従業員内部の汚職腐敗だ」-「同意する」

3.The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite variety.

大自然が最も驚くべきのは、その無限の多様性だ。

4.He hadn 't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad.

フォークサラダ以外は何も食べていない。

5.I would be remiss if I did not do some- thing about it.

これに対して何かしなければ、無責任です。