wait

• vt. 待つ；延期する；遅らせる
• vi. 待機する；遅らせる；食事を待つ
• n. ～を待つ；～を待つ
• n.（待つ）人の名前；（英）Werther；（英）Weiter

古フランス語のwaitier「見守る」、PIE*weg「目覚める」「活気づく」から。フランス語の語源 fat, benefit, au fait と比較。

wait

wait: [12] Wait originally meant ‘look, spy’. But the notion of remaining in hiding, keeping a watch on one’s enemies’ movements led via the sense ‘remain, stay (in expectation)’ to, in the 17th century, ‘defer action’. The word was borrowed from Old Northern French waitier, which was itself a loanword from prehistoric Germanic *wakhtan (ultimate source also of English waft). This in turn was formed from the base *wak-, which also produced English wake, watch, etc. The sense ‘serve food at table’ emerged in the 16th century from an earlier ‘attend on’.
=> waft, wake, watch

wait (v.)

c. 1200, "to watch with hostile intent, lie in wait for, plot against," from Anglo-French and Old North French waitier "to watch" (Old French gaitier "defend, watch out, be on one's guard; lie in wait for;" Modern French guetter), from Frankish *wahton or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *waht- (cognates: Dutch wacht "a watching," Old High German wahten, German wachten "to watch, to guard;" Old High German wahhon "to watch, be awake," Old English wacian "to be awake;" see wake (v.)). General sense of "remain in some place" is from late 14c.; that of "to see to it that something occurs" is late 14c. Meaning "to stand by in attendance on" is late 14c.; specific sense of "serve as an attendant at a table" is from 1560s. Related: Waited; waiting.

To wait (something) out "endure a period of waiting" is recorded from 1849. Waiting room is attested from 1680s. Waiting list is recorded from 1841; the verb wait-list "to put (someone) on a waiting list" is recorded from 1960. Waiting game is recorded from 1835, originally in horse-racing.

When speed, not stoutness, is the best of a horse, quite a contrary system is practised. With such a horse, the jockey plays a waiting game; that is, he carefully nurses him through the race, so as not to distress him by overpacing him; as the finish approaches, he creeps up to his horses by degrees, but does not quit them to go in front till he sees that the pace has made them "safe," -- when he lets loose and wins. [James Christie Whyte, "History of the British Turf," London, 1840]

wait (n.)

early 13c., "a watcher, onlooker," from Old North French wait (Old French gait "look-out, watch, sentry"), from Old North French waitier (Old French gaitier; see wait (v.)). Compare Old High German wahta, German Wacht "a watchman." From late 14c. as "an ambush, a trap" (as in lie in wait). From 1855 as "time occupied in waiting;" 1873 as "an act of waiting." From the sense "civic employee responsible for signaling the hour or an alarm by sounding on a trumpet, etc." comes the old sense "town musicians" (mid-15c.).

1. If you wait ，all that happens is that you get older.

もしあなたが待っていたら、起こるのは年を取ることだけです。

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2.Do not wait for good things to happen to you.You need to walk towards happiness.

良いことが訪れるのを待ってはいけない。幸せに向かって。

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3." Wait there!" Kathryn rose. 「No，on second thought，follow me.」

「そこで待っていて！」キャサリンは立ち上がった。「いいえ、気が変わりました。ついてきて」

4." Wait a damn minute," Mindy spat. 「Nobody said anything about staying overnight.」

「くそっ、ちょっと待って」と言うと、ミンディは「誰も夜を過ごすとは言っていない」と憤慨した。I hope he doesn 't expect you to wait up for him.

徹夜で待つことを期待していないことを願っています。