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In English the word "bigot" refers to a person whose habitual state of mind includes an obstinate, irrational, or unfair intolerance of ideas, opinions, ethnicities, or beliefs that differ from their own, and intolerance of the people who hold them. ==Etymology== The origin of the word ''bigot'' and ''bigoterie'' (bigotry) in English dates back to at least 1598, via Middle French, and started with the sense of "religious hypocrite". This meaning still survives in Italian (bigotto) and French (bigot). The exact origin of the word is unknown, but it may have come from the German ''bei Gott'', or the English ''by God''.〔("bigot" ). ''Online Etymology Dictionary''.〕 William Camden wrote that the Normans were first called bigots, when their Duke Rollo, who when receiving Gisla, daughter of King Charles, in marriage, and with her the investiture of the dukedom, refused to kiss the king's foot in token of subjection – unless the king would hold it out for that specific purpose. When being urged to do it by those present, Rollo answered hastily "No, by God", whereupon the King, turning about, called him ''bigot'', which then passed from him to his people. This is quite probably fictional, as Gisla is unknown in Frankish sources. It is true, however, that the French used the term ''bigot'' to abuse the Normans. The twelfth-century Norman author Wace claimed that ''bigot'' was an insult which the French used against the Normans, but it is unclear whether or not this is how it entered the English language. The French used to call the English les goddams after their favorite curse; Clément Janequin's "La Guerre,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Guerre (La Bataille de Marignan) de Clément Janequin )〕 which is about the Battle of Marignano, similarly uses the Swiss German curse "bigot" (i.e. "by god!") in a context about the Protestant Swiss. According to Henry Bradley, the meaning of ''bigot'' in the Old French was "detested foreigner," "heretic," and it is supposed that the word was a corruption of Visigot. To the Catholic Franks, the Arian Visigoths of Southern France and Spain were the objects of bitter hatred, both on religious and worldly grounds.〔Bradley, Henry, ''The Story of the Goths'', XXXI, 329. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1891.〕 Around 1900, the word ''bigot'' meant in French someone who has an excessive, narrow or petty religious devotion.〔''Le Nouveau Larousse Illustré – Dictionnaire universel encyclopédique'' (1897-1904 - 2nd volume, page 77)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bigotry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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