PIE *welから、希望、願い、語源は意志、志願と同じ。自分の意志による派生、自分の楽しみで、富など。
英語の語源
wealth
wealth: [13] The now virtually defunct weal [OE] meant ‘welfare’, and also ‘riches’; it was descended from prehistoric West Germanic *welon, a derivative of the same base as produced English well. The abstract-noun suffix -th was added to it in early Middle English to produce wealth. This also originally meant ‘welfare, well-being’ as well as ‘riches’, a sense which now survives only in the compound commonwealth [15]. => well
wealth (n.)
mid-13c., "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from Middle English wele "well-being" (see weal (n.1)) on analogy of health.
例文
1. Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers.
経済改革は農民に相対的な富をもたらした。
2.There are easier ways to encourage the even spread of wealth .
富の均等分配を促進するより簡単な方法があります。
3.Sid 'samazing wealth comes from holdings in oil，gas，land and property.
シドの驚くべき富は、石油、天然ガス、不動産の分野で保有している彼の株式から来ている。
4.They drove around in Rolls-Royces,openly flaunting their wealth .
彼らはロールス?ロイスを運転してあちこちを回り、富を公に誇示している。
5.There really is a wealth of unrecognised talent out there.