dag
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覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
dag は主にオーストラリア・ニュージーランド英語で使われる地域語です。牧畜の場面では羊の後部の毛に付いたふんの塊を指し、くだけた人評では「風変わりだが面白い人」を表します。標準的な日常語ではないため、文脈が羊なら汚れた毛、人なら愛嬌のある変わり者、と二つの典型場面を分けて覚えましょう。
Treat dag as a regional word rather than an everyday international term. In a farming context, picture a clump of wool hanging from a sheep’s rear and matted with dung; that concrete image gives the older pastoral sense. In informal Australian speech, the same spelling may describe an eccentric, unfashionable, but often amusing or likable person. Let the surrounding noun and situation choose the meaning: sheep, wool, and shearing point to the literal sense, while a description of someone’s personality points to the colloquial human sense. Do not confuse dag with the much more common word dog.
dag の類義語・関連語
dag の語源・成り立ち Etymology
中英語のdagge（先端・房）に由来し、オランダ語や古フランス語の類似語と繋がるとされます。元来「とがった突起や布の端」を指し、それが転じて「羊のふん塊」「風変わりな人」へ意味が拡大しました。同語根に「dagger（短剣）」「tag（札）」があります。
Dag is recorded from Middle English dagge in senses involving a pointed or hanging piece, such as a strip or ornamental edge of cloth. Its more remote relationships are uncertain, though comparable forms occur in neighboring European languages. The word later developed regional meanings, including a dung-matted lock of sheep’s wool and, in Australian informal usage, an eccentric or unfashionable person. Connections sometimes proposed with dagger or tag should not be treated as certain direct derivations.
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