mangel‐wurzelの英語

参照

• “mangel-wurzel” in the The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

アナグラム

• mangle-wurzel

語源

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".

名詞

mangelwurzel (複数形 mangelwurzels)

1. A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     I have not written to my beloved Amelia for these many weeks past, for what news was there to tell of the sayings and doings at Humdrum Hall, as I have christened it; and what do you care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the beasts thrive well upon mangelwurzel?

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
     Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels

同意語

• (root vegetable): mangold, mangold wurzel, root of scarcity (古風な用法)

等位語

• beet
• chard

アナグラム

• mangle-wurzel