久しぶりに日本の小説を読むことにしました。読むのは芥川賞を受賞した川上未映子の 'Breasts and Eggs' (原題「乳と卵」) です。
I was wondering about the "men" in "menarche." Turns out it's the same as the "men" in "menstruation." It means "month," which comes from "moon," and has to do with women and their monthly cycle. Moon has all kinds meanings. In addition to being the thing orbiting the earth, it can involve time, or tides, like the ebb and flow of the ocean. So "menarche" has absolutely nothing to do with "men." So why spell it that way? What happened to the "o"?
"menarche" は "menstruation" と関係がある単語に違いがありません。 "menstruation" は知っている単語なので月と関係があるのは分かります。
辞書で "menarche" を調べます。
・Wiktionary: The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.: How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
・Merriam-Wevster: the beginning of the menstrual function; especially : the first menstrual period of an individual: Early menarche is also associated with lower birth weight, as well as rapid childhood weight gain, supporting the theory that the physiology of body composition could govern the mechanism that kicks off puberty.
発音は 'muh-nahr-kee' です。
意味は分かりましたが、そうすると引用文最後に 'What happened to the "o"? に対応する日本語がどうなっているのか気になります。日本語の原文をその内にチェックしたいと思います。
I was wondering about the "men" in "menarche." Turns out it's the same as the "men" in "menstruation." It means "month," which comes from "moon," and has to do with women and their monthly cycle. Moon has all kinds meanings. In addition to being the thing orbiting the earth, it can involve time, or tides, like the ebb and flow of the ocean. So "menarche" has absolutely nothing to do with "men." So why spell it that way? What happened to the "o"?
"menarche" は "menstruation" と関係がある単語に違いがありません。 "menstruation" は知っている単語なので月と関係があるのは分かります。
辞書で "menarche" を調べます。
・Wiktionary: The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.: How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
・Merriam-Wevster: the beginning of the menstrual function; especially : the first menstrual period of an individual: Early menarche is also associated with lower birth weight, as well as rapid childhood weight gain, supporting the theory that the physiology of body composition could govern the mechanism that kicks off puberty.
発音は 'muh-nahr-kee' です。
意味は分かりましたが、そうすると引用文最後に 'What happened to the "o"? に対応する日本語がどうなっているのか気になります。日本語の原文をその内にチェックしたいと思います。
トータル
そこで "Brests and Eggs" を調べると 「乳と卵」は英語に翻訳されていない事が分かり、 "Brests and Eggs" は同じく川上未映子が書いた「夏物語」を翻訳であることが分かりました。 以下は英語版のWikipediaからの引用です。
The original work has not been translated into English.
In 2019, Kawakami published the novel Natsu Monogatari (夏物語). It features a completely rewritten version of the original 2008 novella, but uses the same characters and settings. An English translation of Natsu Monogatari was published in 2020, under the original title of Breasts and Eggs.
ややこしい話だ、しょうがないから「夏物語」を借りて調べることにします。