wasp

• n. スズメバチ; [quin]スズメバチ; 過敏な人。
• vi.スズメバチのように急降下する

PIE*wopsaの「編む」、「構築する」から。PIE*webhの「編む」、「紡ぐ」が語源で、語源的にはweb,weaveと同じ。スズメバチを指す。

wasp

wasp: [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo- European *wobhes- or *wops-, which was probably derived from the base *webh-, *wobh- ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to the papery nest which many species construct. West Germanic took this over as *wabis- or *waps-, and the process of metathesis (reversal of sounds) produced English wasp and German wespe. From the same Indo-European ancestor come Latin vespa (source of French guêpe, Italian vespa, and Spanish avispa) and Russian osa.
=> weave, web

wasp (n.)

Old English w?ps, w?sp "wasp," altered (probably by influence of Latin vespa) from Proto-Germanic *wabis- (cognates: Old Saxon waspa, Middle Dutch wespe, Dutch wesp, Old High German wafsa, German Wespe, Danish hveps), from PIE *wopsa-/*wospa- "wasp" (cognates: Latin vespa, Lithuanian vapsa, Old Church Slavonic vosa "wasp," Old Irish foich "drone"), perhaps from *webh- "weave" (see weave (v.)). If that is the correct derivation, the insect would be so called for the shape of its nest. Of persons with wasp-like tendencies, from c. 1500. Wasp-waist in reference to women's figures is recorded from 1870 (wasp-waisted is from 1775).

WASP (n.)

acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, by 1955.

1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.

そのワンピースは彼女のハチの腰を際立たせ、彼女の胸をより豊満に見せる。

2.A wasp flew in the open window.

開いている窓にスズメバチが飛び込んできた。

3.I was stung on the arm by a wasp .

私の腕はスズメバチに刺された。

4.a privileged Wasp background

特権を持つアングロ& ;dash1;サクソン系白人プロテスタント出身

5.The dog went berserk when a wasp stung him.

犬はスズメバチに噛まれ、狂暴になった。