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Domestic, int'l connections lead to unique service learning program in Iwate
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate -- "We've come from Iwate Prefectural University. We are delivering bottled water!" a student called out after knocking on the prefabricated sliding door of a temporary disaster housing unit in this city on the northeastern coast of Japan that was heavily hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
Nearly 100 of these "water volunteers," the majority university students from both Japan and abroad, rounded both temporary housing facilities and new prefectural housing complexes as part of a service learning project led by Iwate Prefectural University (IPU), based in Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture. Iwate students hailing from around the Tohoku area in northern Japan were joined by scholarship-funded foreign students from around the world studying at other Japanese universities.
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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181009/p2a/00m/0na/014000c
今回気になったのは、hail from です。hail は、「あられ、ひょう」という意味でお馴染みですが、fromが付くとどのような意味になるのでしょうか。
LDOCEで引いてみると、“to have been born in a particular place” とあり、『ジーニアス英和大辞典』には、「（…の）出身[育ち]である」と載っていました。船がどこから来たかと尋ねることからこのような意味になったようです。
続いてODEには、“have one’s home or origins in (a place)” とあり、語源は、古ノルド語で「元気な」からきていることが分かりました。（Otoyo）
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