wood

• n. 木材; 木材製品; 林
• vi. 薪を集める
• vt.に植える；薪を加える
• n.(木)人名;(E.F.S.P.)Wood.

PIE*widhu,木,木の柱から、PIE*wi,分ける,の拡大格から、語源的にはwide,withと同じ。おそらく、割材、薪の原義から、または文明と野蛮を分けるという古代の森の比喩的意味から。森の語源を参照。

古英語のwod, 狂う, PIE*wet,吹く, 啓発する, 魂を目覚めさせる, 語源的にはvatic, Wodenと同じ。

wood

wood: [OE] The ancestral meaning of wood is probably ‘collection of trees, forest’; ‘tree’ (now obsolete) and ‘substance from which trees are made’ are secondary developments. The word goes back to prehistoric Germanic *widuz, which also produced Swedish and Danish ved ‘firewood’, and it has Celtic relatives in Gaelic fiodh ‘wood, woods’, Welsh gwydd ‘trees’, and Breton gwez ‘trees’.

Its ultimate source is not known for certain, although it has been suggested that it may go back to the Indo- European base *weidh- ‘separate’ (source also of English divide and widow). According to this theory, it would originally have denoted a ‘separated’ or ‘remote’ piece of territory, near the outer edge or borders of known land; and since such remote, uninhabited areas were usually wooded, it came to denote ‘forest’ (forest itself may mean etymologically ‘outside area’, and the Old Norse word for ‘forest’, mork, originally signified ‘border area’).

wood (n.)

Old English wudu, earlier widu "tree, trees collectively, forest, grove; the substance of which trees are made," from Proto-Germanic *widu- (cognates: Old Norse vier, Danish and Swedish ved "tree, wood," Old High German witu "wood"), from PIE *widhu- "tree, wood" (cognates: Welsh gwydd "trees," Gaelic fiodh- "wood, timber," Old Irish fid "tree, wood"). Out of the woods "safe" is from 1792.

wood (adj.)

"violently insane" (now obsolete), from Old English wod "mad, frenzied," from Proto-Germanic *woda- (cognates: Gothic wots "possessed, mad," Old High German wuot "mad, madness," German wut "rage, fury"), from PIE *wet- (1) "to blow; inspire, spiritually arouse;" source of Latin vates "seer, poet," Old Irish faith "poet;" "with a common element of mental excitement" [Buck]. Compare Old English wot "sound, melody, song," Old Norse oer "poetry," and the god-name Odin.

1. The first task was to fence the wood to exclude sheep.

最初のタスクは、森を囲んで羊が入らないようにすることです。

2.The heady aroma of wood fires emanated from the stove.

ストーブから薪が燃えているときの強い香りがします。

3. Wood has not had much luck in carving out a career.

Woodは何かをしようとしたが、なかなかうまくいかなかった。

4.Rub the surface of the wood in preparation for the varnish.

木材の表面を磨き、ニスを磨く準備をします。

5.The wood had been recently polished to bring back the shine.

木材は最近研磨されて光沢を取り戻した。