boughとは

語源

From Middle English bough, bowe, bogh, boȝe, boȝ, from 古期英語 bōh, bōg (“arm; shoulder; bough”), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“upper arm; shoulder”) (compare German Bug (“shoulder, hock, joint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāǵʰus (“forearm, elbow”) (compare Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pêkhus, “forearm”), Old Armenian բազուկ (bazuk, “arm, forearm, bough”), Persian بازو‎ (bāzu, “upper arm”), Sanskrit बाहु (bahus, “arm”)).

発音

• IPA^(key): /baʊ/
• Homophone: bow
• 韻: -aʊ

名詞

bough (複数形 boughs)

1. A firm branch of a tree.

   When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 18. p. 172.

     A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.

2. (obsolete, poetic) The gallows.

派生語

• cut not the bough that you are standing upon