year

• n.年; 年; 暦年; 年齢; 一年の期間; ある等級

PIE*yer,季節,年,時間,horoscope,星占い,ホロスコープと同じ語源, PIE*ei,行く,去る,する,ire（ラテン語で行く,去る）と同じ語源,旅程, walkから時間のサイクルの語源的意味が派生, 時間,季節,年, 時間と年はどちらも本質的に時間である.yearはどちらも本質的には時間を意味し、辞書的な意味は人為的な割り当ての結果にすぎない。

year

year: [OE] Year is part of a widespread European family of ‘time’-words that goes back ultimately to Indo-European *jēr-, *jōr-. This also produced Greek hórā ‘season’ (ultimate source of English hour), Czech jaro ‘spring’, and Avestan (the ancient Persian sacred language) yāre ‘year’. From it was descended prehistoric Germanic *j?ram, which has evolved into German jahr, Dutch jaar, Swedish ?r, Dutch aar, and English year. It has been speculated that the Indo-European forms themselves may have been derived from a base meaning ‘go’, in which case the etymological notion underlying the word would be of time proceeding.
=> hour

year (n.)

Old English gear (West Saxon), ger (Anglian) "year," from Proto-Germanic *jeram "year" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German jar, Old Norse ar, Danish aar, Old Frisian ger, Dutch jaar, German Jahr, Gothic jer "year"), from PIE *yer-o-, from root *yer- "year, season" (cognates: Avestan yare (nominative singular) "year;" Greek hora "year, season, any part of a year," also "any part of a day, hour;" Old Church Slavonic jaru, Bohemian jaro "spring;" Latin hornus "of this year;" Old Persian du?iyaram "famine," literally "bad year"). Probably originally "that which makes [a complete cycle]," and from verbal root *ei- meaning "to do, make."

1. She ran away with a man called McTavish last year .

昨年、彼女はマクタヴィシュという男と駆け落ちした。

2.They were knocking around together for about a year .

彼らは付き合って約1年になる。

3.Douglas was a 29- year -old journeyman fighter,erratic in his previous fights.

ダグラスは29歳で、腕のいいボクサーで、以前の試合ではあまり安定していなかった。

4.China enters a new five- year plan period next year .

中国は来年から新たな5か年計画期に入る。

5.1998 was an important year for everyone：a time of change.

1998年はすべての人にとって重要な年です：それは変革の時期です。