towel

• n. タオル、ハンドタオル; [紙]ティッシュ
• vt.タオルで拭く
• vi. タオルで体を拭く

中英語のtowel, タオル, toaille, タオルから, 原語ゲルマン語*thwahilo, 手洗い布, タオル地から, PIE*twak, 洗う, 入浴する.-el、小単語接尾辞。雑巾、手ぬぐいなどの意味の派生語彙。

towel

towel: [13] A towel is etymologically something for ‘washing’ with. The word comes from Old French toaille, which was a borrowing from prehistoric Germanic *thwakhliō. This was derived from the verb *thwakhan ‘wash’, whose modern descendants include Swedish tv?tta and Danish tv?tte ‘wash’. Another relative is Swedish tv?l ‘soap’.

towel (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French toaille (12c.), from Frankish *thwahlja, from Proto-Germanic *thwahlijan (cognates: Old Saxon thwahila, Middle Dutch dwale "towel," Dutch dwaal "altar cloth," Old High German dwehila "towel," German dialectal Zwehle "napkin"); related to German zwagen, Old English twean "to wash." Spanish toalla, Italian tovaglia are Germanic loan-words. To throw in the towel "admit defeat" (1915) is from boxing.

towel (v.)

1836 (transitive); 1861 (intransitive), from towel (n.). Related: Towelled; towelling.

1. He wiped off the remains of the lather with a towel .

彼はタオルで残りの石鹸の泡を拭き取った。

2.She tore off two sections of paper towel and folded them lengthwise.

彼女はティッシュペーパーを2枚はがし、縦に2つ折りにした。

3.She opened her front door draped in a towel .

彼女はタオルを巻いて前のドアを開けた。

4.She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it.

彼女は砂浜にタオルを敷いて横になった。

5.She had a towel draped around her neck.

彼女はタオルを首にかけた。