whisper

• n.ささやき声；うわさ；けたたましい音
• vi. ささやく；内密に話す；キーキー言う
• vt.ささやく

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whisper

whisper: [OE] Whisper comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *khwis-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German wispeln and wispern ‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English whistle.
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whisper (v.)

Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (cognates: Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hw?strian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."

whisper (n.)

1590s, from whisper (v.).

1. I 've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.

司教が去るつもりだという噂を聞いた。

2. "So what do you think?「she said in a hoarse whisper .

「ではどう思う？」彼女は声をかすめてそっと尋ねた。

3.Her voice will drop to a dismisive whisper .

彼女は声を低くして、軽蔑してささやく。

4.But don 't whisper a word of that.

でもプライベートではそのことについては何も言わないでください。

5.His voice died away in a whisper .

彼の声は次第に小声になった。