tur
ター
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
tur はコーカサス山脈に生息する頑丈な野生ヤギの名です。一般的な goat 全体ではなく、大きく湾曲した角をもつ Capra 属の山岳動物を指す専門的な語として覚えます。発音は「ター」に近く、Caucasian tur や mountain-dwelling tur のように、生息地と外見を組み合わせると定着します。
Remember tur as the name of a particular wild mountain goat, not as a general word for every goat. Picture a powerful, thick-bodied animal with large curved horns moving across the steep rocky slopes of the Caucasus. The geographic phrase Caucasian tur provides the strongest memory link. Comparing it with ibex can also help: both are wild goats adapted to mountains, but tur refers specifically to Caucasian species or forms of the genus Capra. Its short spelling matches its brief pronunciation, approximately “ter” in many English accents.
tur の類義語・関連語
tur の語源・成り立ち Etymology
英語の tur（コーカサス産の野生ヤギの名）はロシア語 tur に由来し、さらにラテン語 taurus「雄牛」と同根とされます。大きな角をもつ力強い獣を表す古い語根が背景にあり、牛のようにたくましい山ヤギの名だと考えると意味がつかみやすいです。関連語は taurus、taurine。
English tur, the name of a Caucasian wild goat, was borrowed from Russian tur. The Russian animal name belongs to an old group of European words used for large horned animals and has been linked with Latin taurus, “bull.” Because the deeper historical relationship is not entirely straightforward, the safest association is the established Russian source and the shared idea of a strong, conspicuously horned animal.
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