お知らせ
2018/4/23
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,800 語になりました。
abhor, affirm, affirmation, amount, announce, announcer, appliance, applicant, application, applique, compathy, complex, complexion, complexity, compliance, comply, debate, decile, decimal, dendrobium, denture, deployment, despite, diploma, diplomacy, diplomat, diplomatic, double, doubt, dozen, dual, duet, duo, duplex, duplicate, educator, employable, especially, espy, expect, expectation, exploit, horrible, horrific, horror, long, margin, mark, marker, menace, montage, mount, mountain, mounted, mouth, multiple, multiply, octopus, perplex, phonics, plight, poison, potion, projecting, prominence, prominent, pronounce, pronunciation, prostitute, prostitution, remarkable, remount, renounce, replica, scope, simple, simplify, simply, single, singular, singularity, special, specialist, specialize, specially, species, specific, specifically, specification, specify, spectacle, spice, spy, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously, symposium, triple, unemployment, unmounted
山 (mountain) と口 (mouth) の語源が同じであることを知って驚きました。さらにモンタージュも同じ語源だとわかると面白さが連鎖していきます。mark の語源が「境界」だとわかると、印も自ずとわかってきます。「境界」を定めるのが「印」です。mark と mergin は一見つづりが変わってみえますが印欧祖語を見るとしっくりきます。スパイ (spy) とスパイス (spice) が同じ語源なのが目を見張ります。
語源のお話をさせていただく場となる『語源の広場セミナー』を始めます。
2018/1/11
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,700 語になりました。
acceptor, adverse, advert, advertiser, advertising, affectionately, angle, angular, anniversary, annual, anticipant, anticipated, attempt, beneficence, beneficent, biography, biology, capacity, conceptualize, confect, confection, confectionery, controversial, controversially, controversy, conversational, converter, convertible, credential, credo, diversify, divert, diverting, divorce, divorcee, effectual, effectuality, effectually, efficacy, excepting, facsimile, factious, factitious, fake, feasible, featureless, immutable, infectious, interception, inverse, invert, macro, macrobiotic, malefactor, maleficent, micro, molt, monthly, moon, mutable, mutant, number, numerable, numeral, numeric, numerical, numerology, numerous, numerously, permutation, pervert, perverted, prefect, prefectural, prefecture, proficient, profiteer, profiteering, promised, received, recover, reversible, similar, similarity, simulate, simulated, simulation, simulator, simultaneous, simultaneously, subversion, tempt, tentacle, tentative, triangle, versatile, version, versus, vertex, vertical
month と moon は同じ「月」を表します。つづりも似ています。もしや語源は一緒なのかと思って調べたら見事そのとおりでした。また、意外にもファクシミリとシミュレーションは同じ語源です。
2017/9/13
「ピックアップ！ おもしろ語源」と「語源クイズ」の数を増やしました。
2017/9/12
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,600 語になりました。
address, adopt, adoption, atopy, availability, available, capsule, car, carousel, cassette, change, charge, charger, code, codex, commune, communist, communization, copyright, correct, correction, correctly, decrescendo , devaluate, devaluation, direct, direction, directly, director, dress, dressed, enervate, enervation, equal, equality, equally, equilibrium, equivalence, equivalent, erect, evaluate, evaluation, exchange, incapable, incorrect, incorrectly, indirect, invalid, invalidate, like, obstacle, occupier, option, optional, optionally, perceive, photogenic, prevail, prevalence, prevalent, rail, railway, realm, receipt, receivable, receiver, recipe, recipient, regime, region, regional, regionally, regular, regularly, regulation, regulator, reign, right, rightful, rightly, royal, rule, sophist, sophisticate, sophisticated, tasty, topic, unavailable, unequal, unequally, unlike, unsophisticated, valiant, valid, validate, validation, valuable, valuate, valuation, value
value のイメージは「価値」と「強さ」です。prevail は「普及する」や「説き伏せる」を意味しますが、語源を知ると、なるほど！となります。意外にも charge と car の語源は一緒でした。like には「好き」と「〜のような」とありますが、元々は「体質に合う」ことを意味していました。ケース、カセット、カプセルには同じ共通点があります。
2017/7/28
2017/7/2
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,500 語になりました。
adverb, affiliate, air, airplane, anatomist, anatomy, assurance, assure, attractive, central, centralize, centralized, centric, common, communicate, communication, concentrate, concentration, cure, decathlon, deoxygenate, deoxygenation, depression, description, determination, determine, diagnosis, dialogue, diameter, epigraph, express, expression, expressive, filial, form, format, inform, information, informed, insecure, inspection, insurance, interactive, laryngeal, logogram, maintainable, malaria, maximum, meter, neural, neuron, opportunity, over, people, period, phonic, photo, photographer, plain, plane, polycentric, port, portable, press, pressure, prospecting, prospective, proverb, psyche, psychometry, respective, respectively, retro, retrospective, sector, secure, security, see, spectrum, subscription, subway, super, superb, suppression, sure, surely, symbol, synchronized, taste, technology, theosophy, tone, touchable, transformation, untouchable, use, verb, verbal, verbose, way
respect は「尊敬する」を意味し、respective は「それぞれの」を意味します。意味が違っているようで、根幹となるイメージは一緒です。touch と tasty にも、共通点があります。マニキュアとセキュリティにも意外な関係があります。
接頭辞、語根、接尾辞の各ページの先頭の説明を、ほぼ全てに加えました。
スマートフォンのデザインを全体的に改善しました。
2017/6/20
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,400 語になりました。
accessibility, accessible, accessory, acrobat, act, actual, actuality, actually, actuate, actuator, adultery, affluently, aggregation, albatross, albino, alibi, appendant, base, bookish, bookmark, bookstore, call, cholera, cholesterol, circulate, circulation, circulator, coherence, coherent, complication, conflictual, connected, connection, coordinate, coordination, coordinative, coordinator, currently, dandelion, dental, disconnected, disconnection, ejection, elocution, else, essay, ethnicism, ethnicity, etymon, gradual, gradually, graduate, hesitation, hospitable, hospital, host, hostel, hostile, hostility, hotel, inhospitable, injection, interaction, interconnected, interconnection, join, joint, linguine, logic, logical, logically, melanism, mistranslation, national, newly, occurrence, omission, order, ordinal, originality, originally, overbooking, partner, party, pedestrian, preferable, preferred, producer, progression, prohibition, reactive, reference, regression, rejection, store, succession, successive, transferable, translation, transmission
一見関係してなさそうな英単語が同じ語源だと気づくと嬉しいものです。アルバムとアホウドリ。アリバイと else。さらには、hospital「病院」と hostile「敵意」、acrobat の bat と base。などなど。
2017/5/16
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,300 語になりました。
acceptance, accepted, acceptive, affair, affective, beneficial, benefit, cable, capability, capable, caption, captive, capture, captured, case, cash, catch, catcher, chase, chaser, conceivable, conceive, conception, conceptional, cooperation, cooperative, copiable, copious, copiously, copy, deficiency, deficient, deficit, difficult, difficulty, exception, exceptional, face, facilitate, facilitation, facilitative, facilitator, facility, faction, fashion, fashionability, fashionable, infectible, inoccupation, manufacturability, manufacturable, manufactural, manufacture, monolith, monolithic, nonprofit, occupation, occupied, occupy, office, official, officially, omnibus, omnidirectional, opera, operation, operative, optimist, optimistic, optimization, optimize, optimum, parfait, participable, perfect, perfectibility, perfectible, perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, perfective, perfectly, predictable, profit, profitability, profitable, profitless, purchase, purchaser, purchasing, qualifiable, qualification, qualified, qualify, quality, receive, sacrifice, sacrificial, unfashionable, unoccupied
office の of- は opus という語源からできています。opus は work「仕事」を意味する語源で、operation や opera にも含まれます。opus は copy を形成する語源でもあり、知った時は驚きとたのしさがありました。シンプルな英単語にぐっとつまった意図を実感しました。ちなみに opus は omni- とも関連します。
2017/4/8
次の 100 語の単語を追加して合計 1,200 語になりました。
abduction, abductor, abet, abetment, abettor, ability, abjection, abjective, abjuration, abjure, abnormality, abnormally, aboriginal, aborigine, abort, abortion, abortionist, abortive, abortively, abound, abundance, abundant, acceptability, acceptable, antiabortionist, assistance, assistant, bait, bet, book, booking, circumstance, circus, cirque, consist, consistent, constant, constitute, constitution, constitutional, constitutionally, contradict, contradiction, contrast, cut, distance, establish, establishment, existence, injured, install, installation, instance, instant, instanter, instantiate, institute, institution, normalization, normalize, normalized, normative, origin, original, redundancy, redundant, resistance, resistant, rest, rested, restore, restoring, score, search, stage, stall, standard, state, static, statics, station, stationary, statistics, statue, status, stay, steady, still, substance, substantial, substantiate, substitute, substituted, substitution, surround, surrounding, understand, understanding, uninjured, water
score は意外な語源でした。book や cut は意味が広いですが、語源を知ると、それぞれの意味はつながっていることがわかります。アボリジニ (aborigine) とオリジナル (original) の語源が一緒だと知った時は驚きました。water と abundant、実は同じ語源です。
2017/4/1
『英語耳』松澤喜好さん、『日本語と英語をつなぐ』すずきひろしさんとの合同企画『語源の広場』を公開しました。
それ以前
過去のお知らせはこちらにまとめました。