turd

• n. faeces, dung; 卑しい人

古英語のtord, dung, filthから、原ゲルマン語*turda, dirt, manureから、PIE*der, to separate, to tear apartから、語源的にはtear, tierと同じ。語彙の進化の比較shit, PIE*skei, to separateから、語源的にはscience, shedと同じ。

turd

turd: [OE] Turd is an ancient word, traceable right back to Indo-European *drtom. This was formed from the base *dr-, *der- ‘flay, tear’ (source also of English tear), and so etymologically denoted that which is ‘separated’ from the body, like flayed skin, and hence ejected or excreted from the body. It passed into English via prehistoric Germanic *turdam. A distant relative is Latvian dirsti ‘defecate’.
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turd (n.)

Old English tord "piece of excrement," from Proto-Germanic *turdam (cognates: Middle Dutch torde "piece of excrement," Old Norse tord-yfill, Dutch tort-wevel "dung beetle"), from PIE *drtom, past participle of root *der- (2) "to split, peel, flay, tear;" thus "that which is separated ("torn off") from the body" (compare shit (v.) from root meaning "to split;" Greek skatos from root meaning "to cut off; see scatology). As a type of something worthless and vile, it is attested from mid-13c. Meaning "despicable person" is recorded from mid-15c.

A tord ne yeue ic for eu alle ["The Owl and the Nightingale," c. 1250]

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Alle thingis ... I deme as toordis, that I wynne Crist. [Wyclif, Phil. iii.8, 1382; KJV has "I count all things ... but dung, that I may win Christ"]

1. The more you tramp on a turd ，the broader it grows.

長い苦難の経験が多い。

2.Death is equally mysterious，but there 's no sugar-coating that turd .

死も同じ神秘だが、この臭い物を包む糖衣はない。

3.The guy acts like a real turd most of the time.

あいつの振る舞いはいつ見ても哀れな虫に見える。

4.Why are you being such a turd ！I wish I hadn 't gotten married！

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