lendとは

語源 1

From Middle English lende (usually in 複数形 as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from 古期英語 lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landijō, *landį̄ (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ля́двея (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).

別の表記

• leynd, leind, lind (Scotland)
• lende (廃れた用法)

名詞

lend (複数形 lends または linder)

1. (anatomy, Britain dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
2. (Britain dialectal, of a person または animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

語源 2

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from 古期英語 lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.

動詞

lend (三人称単数 現在形 lends, 現在分詞 lending, 過去形および過去分詞形 lent)

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

   I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.

   I lent her 10 euros to pay for the train tickets, and she paid me back the next day.

2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

   Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.

   The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.

4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

   Can you lend me some assistance?

   The famous director lent his name to the new film.

   • Addison

     Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.

   • J. A. Symonds

     Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.

5. (proscribed) To borrow.

反意語

• borrow

派生語

• lend to believe
• have a lend

参考

• give back
• lender
• loan
• pay back

参照

• lend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• lend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913