weir: [OE] A weir is etymologically a structure for ‘hindering’ the flow of water. The word’s Old English ancestor was derived from the verb werīan ‘defend, protect’, also ‘hinder’, and hence by extension ‘dam up’, which was distantly related to Sanskrit vr ‘cover’ and vāraya ‘stop, hinder’, and came ultimately from the Indo-European base *wer- ‘cover, shut’.
weir (n.)
Old English wer "dam, fence, enclosure," especially one for catching fish (related to werian "dam up"), from Proto-Germanic *wer-jon- (cognates: Old Norse ver, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch were, Dutch weer, Old High German wari, German Wehr "defense, protection," Gothic warjan "to defend, protect"), from PIE *wer- (5) "to cover, shut" (cognates: Sanskrit vatah "enclosure," vrnoti "covers, wraps, shuts;" Lithuanian u?veriu "to shut, to close;" Old Persian *pari-varaka "protective;" Latin (op)erire "to cover," (ap)erire "open, uncover" (with ap- "off, away"); Old Church Slavonic vora "sealed, closed," vreti "shut;" Old Irish feronn "field," properly "enclosed land").
例文
1. Weir broke his leg in a freak accident playing golf.
ウィルはゴルフ中に起きた突飛な事故で足を折った。
2.The discharge from the weir opening should be free.
堰の開口部からの水の流れがスムーズになるようにしてください。
3.If I want Martin Weir ，I go get Martin Weir .
マーティン?ウィルが必要なら、マーティン?ウィルを探しに行きます。
4.It 'says here you 're getting Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy？
マーティン?ウィルにルボジョイを演じさせると聞いた？
5.You can 't make a Martin Weir into a Mel Gibson.