搾乳
解説 Definition
milking は milk（乳を搾る）の動名詞で、牛やヤギなどから乳を搾ることを意味します。農場での日課や作業工程について述べるときによく使われます。
Milking is the act or process of drawing milk from a cow, goat, or another animal, either by hand or with equipment. It commonly refers to a regular task or stage of work on a farm.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 milk「乳を搾る」に -ing をそのまま加えた動名詞で、綴りは milking、発音は語末に /ɪŋ/ が加わります。early-morning milking や equipment before milking のような農場の作業場面を思い浮かべましょう。名詞 milk「乳」から、その乳を得る行為へつなげると覚えやすくなります。
Start with the verb milk, meaning “to draw milk from an animal,” and add -ing without changing the spelling: milk becomes milking. The ending adds the sound /ɪŋ/. As a gerund, milking names the activity itself, as in “Milking begins early” or “clean the equipment before milking.” Picture a regular farm routine involving animals, clean equipment, and careful handling. The noun milk is the product, while milking is the work performed to obtain it.
例文
Milking begins early on the farm.
その農場では搾乳が早朝に始まります。
The worker cleaned the equipment before milking.
作業員は搾乳の前に器具を洗いました。
Careful milking helps keep the animals calm.
丁寧な搾乳は動物を落ち着かせるのに役立ちます。
milking の類義語・関連語
milking の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 milcian（乳を搾る）に動名詞接尾辞 -ing が付いた語。語根 milk はゲルマン祖語 *meluks（乳）に遡り、ラテン語 mulgēre（搾る）と同源。関連語：milk（牛乳）、emulsion（乳化液、ラテン語「搾り出す」から）。家畜から乳を搾る行為を指す。
Milking is formed from the verb milk plus the gerund suffix -ing. The verb descends from Old English milcian, meaning “to milk,” and is related to the Germanic noun that became modern English milk. These words belong to an old Indo-European group associated with milk and milking, which also includes Latin mulgēre, “to milk.” The modern form straightforwardly names the process of obtaining milk from an animal.
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