英语词源

• gas 英文词源 gas gas: [17] We get gas from a Flemish pronunciation of Greek kháos ‘chasm, void’ (a derivative of Indo-European * gh ə w - ‘hollow’, and source of English chaos [15]). The Flemish chemist J B van Helmont (1577–1644) used the Greek word to denote an occult principal, supposedly an ultra-refined form of water, which he postulated as existing in all matter. The sound of Gre
• garter 英文词源 garter garter: [14] The ultimate source of garter was probably an unrecorded Gaulish word meaning ‘leg’ (related to Welsh gar ‘leg’). It was borrowed into Old French at some point and used as the basis of the noun garet , which (in relation to people) meant ‘place where the leg bends, knee’. From this in turn was derived Old French gartier ‘band just above or below the k
• garrulous 英文词源 garrulous (adj.) 1610s, from Latin garrulus "talkative, chattering," from garrire "to chatter," from PIE root *gar- "to call, cry," of imitative origin (compare Greek gerys "voice, sound," Ossetic zar "song," Welsh garm , Old Irish gairm "noise, cry"). Related: Garrulously ; garrulousness . 中文词源 garrulous ：唠叨不清的 来自PIE*gar, 呼喊，呼叫，拟声词。 该词的
• garrote 英文词源 garrote (v.) "to execute with a garrote," 1845, from garrote (n.); sense of "choke senseless and then rob" is from 1852. Related: Garotted ; garotting . garrote (n.) also garrotte , 1620s, "Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation," from Spanish garrote "stick for twisting cord" (the method used in the execution), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Old French guaroc "club, s
• garrison 英文词源 garrison garrison: [13] The notion underlying garrison is of ‘protection’. Its ultimate source was Germanic * war -, denoting ‘caution’, which also produced English ward , warn , wary , and the - ware of beware . This produced the verb * warjan ‘protect, defend’, which Old French borrowed as garir (the related garer gave English garage ). From it was derived the Old French
• garret 英文词源 garret (n.) c. 1300, garite , "turret, small tower on the roof of a house or castle," from Old French garite "watchtower, place of refuge, shelter, lookout," from garir "defend, preserve," which is from a Germanic source (compare Old English warian "to hold, defend," Gothic warjan "forbid," Old High German warjan "to defend"), from Proto-Germanic *warjan , from PIE root *wer- (5) "to
• garnish 英文词源 garnish garnish: [14] Garnish was originally a fairly utilitarian verb, meaning simply ‘fit out, equip, supply’ or ‘adorn’. Its modern culinary application did not develop until the late 17th century. It came from garniss -, the lengthened stem of the Old French verb garnir ‘equip, adorn’. This was borrowed from prehistoric Germanic * warnjan , which presumably came from t
• garnet 英文词源 garnet garnet: [13] Garnet , as a term for a semiprecious stone, was borrowed from Middle Dutch garnate . This in turn came from Old French grenat ‘dark red’, the colour of the garnet, whose original inspiration was probably the pomegranate (in Old French pome grenate ), with its vivid scarlet pulp. = grain , pomegranate garnet (n.) mid-15c., metathesized form of gernet "the gem g
• garner 英文词源 garner garner: see grain garner (v.) late 15c., "to store grain," from garner (n.). Related: Garnered ; garnering . garner (n.) "a granary," late 12c., gerner , from Old French gernier , metathesized variant of grenier "storehouse, loft for grain," from Latin granarium (usually plural, granaria ) "store-house for grain" (see granary ). 中文词源 garner ：收集 来自granary的拼写
• garment 英文词源 garment (n.) c. 1400, "any article of clothing," reduced form of garnement (early 14c.), from Old French garnement "garment, attire, clothes" (12c.), from garnir "fit out, provide, adorn" (see garnish (v.)). 中文词源 garment ：衣服 来自PIE*wer, 保护，隐藏，词源同warrant, weir. 后指衣服。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garment 词源， ga
• garland 英文词源 garland (n.) c. 1300 (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), "wreath of flowers," also "crown of gold or silver," from Old French garlande "garland," probably from a Frankish frequentative form of *weron "adorn, bedeck," from *wiara- , *weara- "wire" (on the notion of "ornament of refined gold," properly "of twisted gold wire"), from Proto-Germanic *wira- , *wera- , suffixed form of PIE *wei- (1)
• garish 英文词源 garish (adj.) "showy, dazzling," especially "glaringly vulgar and gaudy," 1540s, of unknown origin, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren "to stare" (c. 1200), which is of uncertain origin (perhaps from Old Norse gaurr "rough fellow") + -ish . Related: Garishly ; garishness . 中文词源 garish ：俗艳的 词源不详。可能同garnish, 装饰。 该词的英语词源请访问
• gargoyle 英文词源 gargoyle gargoyle: [15] The ancient root * garg -, * gurg originated as an imitation of throat sounds. From it were derived such guttural words as Greek gargaraaizein ‘gargle’ (whence Latin gargarizāre ‘gargle’) and Latin gurguliō ‘gullet’ (Latin gurges , source of English gorge and regurgitate , had moved further figuratively to ‘whirlpool’). Among the offspring of
• gargle 英文词源 gargle (v.) 1520s, from Middle French gargouiller "to gurgle, bubble" (14c.), from Old French gargole "throat, waterspout," which is perhaps from garg- , imitative of throat sounds, + *goule , dialect word for "mouth," from Latin gula "throat." Related: Gargled ; gargling . The earlier, native, form of the word was Middle English gargarize (early 15c.), from Latin gargarizare , from G
• gardenia 英文词源 gardenia (n.) shrub genus, 1757, Modern Latin, named for Scottish-born American naturalist Dr. Alexander Garden (1730-1791), Vice President of the Royal Society, + abstract noun ending -ia . 中文词源 gardenia ：栀子花 瑞典植物学家林奈以18世纪苏格兰裔美籍植物学家Alexander Garden命名的植物。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garden
• garden 英文词源 garden garden: [14] Ultimately, garden and yard are the same word. Both come from prehistoric Germanic * gardon , but whereas yard reached English via a direct Germanic route, garden diverted via the Romance languages. Vulgar Latin borrowed * gardon as * gardo ‘enclosure’, and formed from it the adjective * gardīnus ‘enclosed’. The phrase hortus gardīnus ‘enclosed garden’
• Garda 英文词源 Garda "The state police force of the Republic of Ireland", From Irish Garda Síochána 'Civic Guard'. 中文词源 Garda ：爱尔兰警察 来自爱尔兰语，词源同guard. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Garda 词源， Garda 含义。
• garcon 英文词源 garcon (n.) c. 1300, "a boy, a youth" (early 13c. as a surname), from Old French garçun "menial, servant-boy, page; man of base condition," ["in jocular use, 'lad'" - OED]; objective case of gars (11c.; Modern French garçon "boy, bachelor, single man; waiter, porter"). This comes, perhaps via Gallo-Romance, from Frankish *wrakjo- or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wrak
• garbo 英文词源 Garbo screen surname of Swedish actress Greta Gustaffson (1905-1990); her name was used allusively to indicate aloofness by 1934; her legendary avoidance of publicity began with her retirement from films in the mid-40s. Related: Garbo-esque . 中文词源 garbo ：垃圾工 来自garbage的口语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garbo 词源， garbo 含义。
• garbled 英文词源 garbled (adj.) by 1620s of spices; by 1774 of language; past-participle adjective from garble (v.). 中文词源 garbled ：混乱的 来自garble, 歪曲的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garbled 词源， garbled 含义。
• garble 英文词源 garble garble: [15] Garble used not to have its presentday negative connotations. It originally meant simply ‘cleanse, sift, cull’: ‘[At Alexandria] all sorts of spices be garbled after the bargain is made’, Richard Hakluyt, Voyages 1599. Gradually, though, ‘taking out the worst’ and ‘selecting the best’ passed into ‘making an unfair selection’, ‘distorting by le
• garbanzo 英文词源 garbanzo (n.) "chick-pea," 1759, from Spanish garbanzo , said to be ultimately from Greek or Basque. 中文词源 garbanzo ：鹰嘴豆 来自希腊语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garbanzo 词源， garbanzo 含义。
• garbage 英文词源 garbage (n.) "refuse, filth," 1580s; earlier "giblets, refuse of a fowl, waste parts of an animal (head, feet, etc.) used for human food" (early 15c., in early use also gabage , garbish , garbidge ), of unknown origin; OED says probably from Anglo-French "like many other words found in early cookery books." In its sense of "waste material, refuse" it has been influenced by and partly
• garb 英文词源 garb garb: see gear garb (n.) "fashion of dress," 1620s, from earlier sense "person's outward demeanor" (c. 1600), originally "elegance, stylishness" (1590s), from Middle French garbe "graceful outline, gracefulness, comeliness" (Modern French galbe ) or directly from Italian garbo "grace, elegance, pleasing manners, " which is from Old High German gar(a)wi "dress, equipment, preparat
• garam masala 英文词源 garam masala "A spice mixture used in Indian cookery", From Urdu garam maṣālaḥ , from garam 'hot, pungent' + maṣālaḥ 'spice'. 中文词源 garam masala ：印度香料 来自印度语，garam, 刺鼻的，masala香料，即咖喱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： garam masala 词源， garam masala 含义。
• garage 英文词源 garage garage: [20] As the motor-car age got under way at the start of the 20th century, a gap opened up in the lexicon for a word for ‘car-storage place’. English filled it in 1902 by borrowing French garage . The first references to it show that the term ( station was an early alternative) was originally applied to large commercially run shelters housing many vehicles – the eq
• gar 英文词源 gar (n.) pike-like fish, 1765, American English, shortening of garfish (mid-15c.), from fish (n.) + Middle English gare , gore "a spear," from Old English gar "spear," from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz "spear" (cognates: Old Norse geirr "spear; point of an anvil," Old Saxon, Old High German ger , German Ger "spear"), from PIE *ghaiso- "a stick, spear" (see goad (n.)). The fish so called for
• gapper 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random curtail curtail: [16] The now defunct English noun curtal meant ‘horse with a docked tail’. It was borrowed in the 16th century from French courtault , a derivative of the adjective court ‘short’. Like English curt [17] this came from Latin curtus ‘cut off, shortened’, which in common with English short and shear , c
• gape 英文词源 gape gape: [13] Gape and the related gap [14] are of Scandinavian origin. English borrowed the verb from Old Norse gapa ‘open the mouth’, which survives in modern Scandinavian languages as Swedish gapa and Danish gabe . Old Norse gap ‘chasm’ (source of Swedish gap ‘mouth’ and Danish gab ‘opening, open mouth’) was originally taken over by English in the specific sense ‘
• gap 英文词源 gap (n.) early 14c., "an opening in a wall or hedge; a break, a breach," mid-13c. in place names, from Old Norse gap "chasm, empty space," related to gapa "to gape, open the mouth wide," common Proto-Germanic (cognates: Middle Dutch, Dutch gapen , German gaffen "to gape, stare," Swedish gapa , Danish gabe ), from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (see yawn (v.)). From late 14c. as "a break o
• Ganymede 英文词源 Ganymede Trojan youth taken by Zeus as his cup-bearer (and lover), from Greek Ganymedes , perhaps a non-Greek name, or from ganymai "I rejoice, am glad" (related to ganos "brightness; sheen; gladness, joy; pride") + medea (plural) "counsels, plans, cunning" (see Medea ); taken in Greek folk-etymology to mean "delighting in genitals." Used figuratively of serving-boys (c. 1600) and cat
• Gantt chart 英文词源 Gantt chart "A chart in which a series of horizontal lines shows the amount of work done or production completed in certain periods of time in relation to the amount planned for those periods", Early 20th century: named after Henry L. Gantt (1861–1919), American management consultant. 中文词源 Gantt chart ：甘特图 来自19世纪美国项目管理顾问Henry Gantt设计的工程
• gantry 英文词源 gantry gantry: see gallon gantry (n.) also gauntree , 1570s, "four-footed stand for a barrel," probably from Old North French gantier (Old French chantier , 13c., "store-room, stock-room"), from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame," also "a gelding," from Greek kanthelios "pack ass," which is related to kanthelion "rafter," of unknown origin. The connecting notion in all this seems to be
• gannet 英文词源 gannet gannet: [OE] The gannet used to be known dialectally as the solan goose ( solan was a compound formed in the 15th century from Old Norse súla ‘gannet’ and önd ‘duck’), and in fact the name gannet too reveals a perceived similarity between the gannet and the goose. For it comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic * ganitaz or * ganoton , a word formed from the same
• ganja 英文词源 ganja (n.) also ganjah , powerful preparation of cannabis sativa , 1800, from Hindi ganjha . 中文词源 ganja ：大麻 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ganja 词源， ganja 含义。
• gangway 英文词源 gangway (n.) "temporary passageway" to a ship, building under construction, etc., ultimately from Old English gangweg "road, passage, thoroughfare;" a compound of gang (n.) in its original sense "a going, journey, way, passage" and way (n.). Nautical use dates from 1680s in reference to a passage on the ship, from 1780 of the opening at the side whereby people enter and leave, and by
• gangsta 英文词源 gangsta rap style generally credited to West Philly hip hop artist Schoolly D, but as for the word itself, his " Gangster Boogie" (1984) used the conventional spelling; NWA was spelling it gangsta by 1988. 中文词源 gangsta ：流氓 来自gangster的拼写变体。-ster, 人，通常含贬义。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gangsta 词源， gangsta 含义。
• gangrene 英文词源 gangrene (n.) "putrefaction or necrosis of soft tissues," 1540s, cancrena , from Latin gangraena (Medieval Latin cancrena ), from medical Greek gangraina "an eating or gnawing sore," literally "that which eats away," dissimilated reduplicated form of gran- "to gnaw," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (see gastric ). 中文词源 gangrene ：坏疽 来自PIE*gras, 吞噬，吞食，词源
• gangplank 英文词源 gang (n.) from Old English gang "a going, journey, way, passage," and Old Norse gangr "a group of men, a set," both from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Danish, Dutch, Old High German, German gang , Old Norse gangr , Gothic gagg "act of going"), from PIE root *ghengh- "to step" (cognates: Sanskrit jangha "shank," Avestan zanga- "ankle," Lithuanian zengiu "I s
• gangmaster 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random argue argue: [14] English acquired argue and its various meanings via rather complex paths, but its ultimate origin is straightforward: the Latin verb arguere derived from a prehistoric Indo- European base * arg - ‘be white, bright, or clear’ (source also of Latin argentum ‘silver’, and thus of French argent ‘money’)
• gangly 英文词源 gangly (adj.) 1872 (Mark Twain, "Roughing It"), an American English alteration of gangling . 中文词源 gangly ：高瘦笨拙的 来自gangling的美式拼写。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gangly 词源， gangly 含义。
• ganglion 英文词源 ganglion (n.) 1680s, "tumor, swelling;" 1732 as "bundle of nerves," from Greek ganglion "tumor under the skin," used by Galen for "nerve bundle;" of unknown origin. According to Galen, the proper sense of the word was "anything gathered into a ball." 中文词源 ganglion ：腱鞘囊肿 来自希腊语ganglion, 皮肤肿块。词源不详，可能来自PIE*gog, 球形物体，块状，
• gangling 英文词源 gangling (adj.) "long and loose-jointed," by 1812, from Scottish and Northern English gang (v.) "to walk, go," which is a survival of Old English gangan , which is related to gang (n.). The form of the word is that of a present-participle adjective from a frequentative verb (as in fondling , trampling ), but no intermediate forms are known. The sense extension would seem to be via som
• gangland 英文词源 gangland (n.) "the criminal underworld; the realm of gangsters," 1912, from gang (n.) + land (n.). 中文词源 gangland ：盗匪世界 gang, 帮，伙。land ,土地，地盘。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gangland 词源， gangland 含义。
• Ganges 英文词源 Ganges from Sanskrit ganga "current, river." 中文词源 Ganges ：恒河 来自印度语，河流。印度最神圣的河。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Ganges 词源， Ganges 含义。
• gangbusters 英文词源 gangbusters (n.) to come on like gangbusters (c. 1940) is from popular U.S. radio crime-fighting drama "Gang Busters" (1937-57) which always opened with a cacophony of sirens, screams, pistol shots, and jarring music. 中文词源 gangbusters ：热情洋溢 gang, 帮，伙。buster, 家伙。即一帮土匪，词义褒义化。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： g
• Gang of Four 英文词源 Gang of Four 1976, translating Chinese sirenbang , the nickname given to the four leaders of the Cultural Revolution who took the fall in Communist China after the death of Mao. 中文词源 Gang of Four ：四人帮 来自中国文革期间四人帮的翻译。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Gang of Four 词源， Gang of Four 含义。
• gang 英文词源 gang gang: [12] Gang originally meant ‘going, journey’. It was borrowed from Old Norse gangr , which goes back ultimately to the same Germanic source (the verb * ganggan ‘go’) as produced the German past participle gegangen ‘gone’ and Old English gangan ‘go’ – still preserved in Scottish gang ‘go’ and in gangway [17]. Originally literally a ‘way for going’. T
• gander 英文词源 gander gander: see gannet gander (v.) "take a long look," slang, 1886, from gander (n.) on the notion of craning one's neck like a goose; earlier it meant "to wander foolishly" (1680s). Related: Gandered ; gandering . gander (n.) Old English gandra "male goose," from Proto-Germanic *gan(d)ron (cognates: Dutch gander , Middle Low German ganre ), from PIE *ghans- "goose" (see goose (n.)
• gammy 英文词源 gammy "(Especially of a leg) unable to function normally because of injury or chronic pain", Mid 19th century (in the sense 'bad, false'): dialect form of game 2 . 中文词源 gammy ：受伤的 词源不详。可能来自拉丁语gamba, 腿，词源同gammon, gambol.即腿受伤的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gammy 词源， gammy 含义。
• gammon 英文词源 gammon gammon: Gammon ‘bacon’ [15] is not related to the gammon [18] of backgammon . It comes from Old Northern French gambon (source also of modern French jambon ‘ham’), which was a derivative of gambe ‘leg’ – hence etymologically ‘leg meat’. This seems to go back ultimately to Greek kampé ‘bend’, which was used particularly as an anatomical term for joints of
• gamma 英文词源 gamma third letter of the Greek alphabet, c. 1400, from Greek gamma , from Phoenician gimel , said to mean literally "camel" (see camel ) and to be so called for a fancied resemblance of its shape to some part of a camel. Gamma rays (1903) originally were thought to be a third type of radiation, but later were found to be very short X-rays. 中文词源 gamma ：希腊字母表的第三
• gamine 英文词源 gamine (n.) "small, slim, pert young girl," 1899, from French gamine , fem. of gamin . 中文词源 gamine ：娇小迷人的 词源不详。可能来自game, 野味，引申义美女。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gamine 词源， gamine 含义。
• gamey 英文词源 gamey (adj.) also gamy , 1844, "spirited, plucky," from game (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "tasting or smelling strongly" is from 1863. 中文词源 gamey ：有变质味道的 来自game,猎物，野味。原指野味发出的膻味。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gamey 词源， gamey 含义。
• gamete 英文词源 gamete (n.) "sexual protoplasmic body," 1880, coined 1878 by German cytologist Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912), the widespread attribution of the word's coinage to Mendel being apparently erroneous. From Greek gamete "a wife," gametes "a husband," from gamein "to take to wife, to marry," from PIE root *gem(e)- "to marry" (cognates: Greek gambros "son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-l
• gamesmanship 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random happen happen: [14] Surprisingly for such a common verb, happen is a comparatively recent addition to the English language. Old English had a number of verbs denoting ‘occurrence’, all long since defunct, including gelimpan and gescēon , and in the 13th century befall began to be used for ‘happen’, but the first signs w
• gamely 英文词源 gamely (adv.) "courageously," 1861, from game (adj.2) + -ly (2). In Old English and Middle English the adverb meant "artfully; joyfully." 中文词源 gamely ：勇敢顽强地 来自game, 比赛。即比赛精神。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gamely 词源， gamely 含义。
• gamelan 英文词源 gamelan (n.) "East Indian orchestra," 1817, from Javanese gamel "to handle." 中文词源 gamelan ：加美兰乐队（以木琴，大吊锣等为主的印度尼西亚传统乐队） 来自印度尼西亚语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gamelan 词源， gamelan 含义。
• game bird 英文词源 bustard bustard: [15] Bustard (the name of a large game bird now extinct in Britain) is something of a mystery word. Old French had two terms for the bird, bistarde and oustarde , both of which come from Latin avis tarda , literally ‘slow bird’ (Latin tardus gave English tardy [15]). This, according to the Roman writer Pliny, was what the bird was called in Spain. It has been obje
• game 英文词源 game game: There are two games in English. The noun game ‘pastime, sport’ [OE] used to be a fairly widespread word in the Germanic languages (Swedish and Danish still preserve it as gamman and gammen respectively) and may well go back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from the collective prefix * ga - and * mann - ‘person’ (source of English man ), and denoting literal
• gambol 英文词源 gambol (n.) "frolic, merrymaking," 1590s, earlier gambolde "a skipping, a leap or spring" (1510s), from Middle French gambade (15c.), from Late Latin gamba "horse's hock or leg," from Greek kampe "a bending" (on notion of "a joint"), from PIE *kamp- "to bend" (see campus ). Ending altered perhaps by confusion with formerly common ending -aud , -ald (as in ribald ). gambol (v.) "skip a
• gamble 英文词源 gamble gamble: [18] Although its ancestry has never been established beyond all doubt, it seems overwhelmingly likely that gamble is essentially the same word as game (in which the sense ‘gamble’ is preserved in such contexts as gaming tables and betting and gaming ). The Middle English form of game was gamen , and it is thought that this may have produced a variant form gamel (re
• gambit 英文词源 gambit gambit: [17] Like gambol [16], gambit originated in an Italian noun meaning literally ‘tripping up’. The Italian for ‘leg’ is gamba (a relative of English gammon ‘bacon’). From it were derived gambetto and gambata , both of which signified ‘trip-up’. The former was borrowed into Spanish as gambito , where its underlying notion of ‘underhanded procedure’ was
• galumph 英文词源 galumph (v.) 1872, "to prance about in a self-satisfied manner," coined by Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky," apparently by blending gallop and triumph . "The sense in current use may vary according to different notions of what the sound expresses" [OED]. Related: Galumphing . 中文词源 galumph ：懒散地移动 来自gallop和triumph的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• galoshes 英文词源 galoshes galoshes: [14] In modern terms, galoshes might be etymologically rendered as ‘little French shoes’. The word comes from Old French galoche , which was an alteration of late Latin gallicula . This in turn was a diminutive form of Latin gallica , short for gallica solea ‘Gallic sandal, sandal from Gaul’ (the name Gaul , incidentally, and the Latin-based Gallic [17], com
• galore 英文词源 galore (adv.) 1670s, from Irish go leór , and equivalent Scottish Gaelic gu leóir "sufficiently, enough," from Old Irish roar "enough," from Proto-Celtic *ro-wero- "sufficiency." The particle go/gu usually means "to," but it also is affixed to adjectives to form adverbs, as here. Often used in English with the force of a predicate adjective. 中文词源 galore ：大量的 来自爱尔
• gallstone 英文词源 gallstone (n.) 1758, from gall (n.1) + stone (n.). 中文词源 gallstone ：胆结石 gall, 胆。stone, 石。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gallstone 词源， gallstone 含义。
• gallows 英文词源 gallows gallows: [13] Gallows was probably borrowed from Old Norse gálgi (the related Old English galga does not seem to have survived into the Middle English period). Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic * galgon ‘pole’, whose descendants, which also include Old High German galgo and Gothic galga , were often used for the ‘cross on which Christ was crucified’. The pluralit
• gallop 英文词源 gallop (v.) "move or run by leaps," early 15c., from Old French galoper "to gallop" (12c.), central Old French form of Old North French waloper , probably from Frankish *wala hlaupan "to run well" (see wallop ). Related: Galloped ; galloping . Though the French word is Germanic, Dutch galopperen , German galoppiren , Swedish galoppera are from French. gallop (n.) "a leaping gait," the
• gallon 英文词源 gallon gallon: [13] English acquired gallon from Old Northern French galon . This was a descendant of medieval Latin gallēta , a word for a ‘jug’ which was also used as a unit of measurement for wine. It may have been of Celtic origin. An early modern English dialect form of gallon was gawn , which added to tree produced gantry [16], originally a ‘wooden stand for barrels’. =
• gallivant 英文词源 gallivant (v.) "gad about, spend time in frivolous pleasure-seeking, especially with the opposite sex," 1809, of uncertain origin, perhaps a playful elaboration of gallant in an obsolete verbal sense of "play the gallant, flirt, gad about." Related: Gallivanted ; gallivanting . Young Lobski said to his ugly wife, "I'm off till to-morrow to fish, my life;" Says Mrs. Lobski, "I'm sure y
• gallium 英文词源 gallium (n.) metalic element that melts in the hand, discovered by spectral lines in 1875 by French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838-1912), who named it apparently in honor of his homeland (see Gallic ), but it has been suggested that he also punned on his own name (compare Latin gallus "cock," for which see gallinaceous ). 中文词源 gallium ：镓 来自Gallic, 高卢的，法国的
• gallinaceous 英文词源 gallinaceous (adj.) "of or resembling domestic fowl," 1783, from Latin gallinaceus "of hens, of fowls, pertaining to poultry," from gallina "hen," a fem. formation from gallus "cock," probably from PIE root *gal- (2) "to call, shout" (see call (v.)) as "the calling bird." But it also has an ancient association with Gaul (see Gallic ), and some speculate that this is the source of the
• galling 英文词源 galling (adj.) "irritating, offensive, extremely annoying," 1580s, figurative use of present participle of gall (v.). 中文词源 galling ：令人恼怒 来自gall, 恼怒。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： galling 词源， galling 含义。
• Gallic 英文词源 Gallic Gallic: see galoshes Gallic (adj.) 1670s, "of or pertaining to the French," from Latin Gallicus "pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls," from Latin Gallia "Gaul" and Gallus "a Gaul" from a native Celtic name (see Gaelic ), though some connect the word with prehistoric West Germanic *walkhoz "foreigners" (see Welsh ). Originally used in English rhetorically or mockingly for "French."
• galley 英文词源 galley (n.) 13c., "seagoing vessel having both sails and oars," from Old French galie , galee "boat, warship, galley," from Medieval Latin galea or Catalan galea , from Late Greek galea , of unknown origin. The word has made its way into most Western European languages. Originally "low, flat-built seagoing vessel of one deck," once a common type in the Mediterranean. Meaning "cooking
• gallery 英文词源 gallery gallery: [15] The original meaning of gallery in English was ‘long roofed walk way along the wall of a building’; the present sense ‘room or building for the exhibition of paintings, sculpture, etc’ did not develop until the end of the 16th century. English borrowed the word from Old French galerie ‘portico’, which came via Italian galleria from medieval Latin gale
• galleon 英文词源 galleon (n.) kind of large ship, 1520s, from French galion "armed ship of burden," and directly from Spanish galeón "galleon, armed merchant ship," augmentative of galea , from Byzantine Greek galea "galley" (see galley ) + augmentative suffix -on . Developed 15c.-16c., it was shorter, broader, and with a higher stern superstructure than the galley. In English use, especially of Span
• gallant 英文词源 gallant gallant: [14] Gallant originated as the present participle of Old French galer ‘make merry, rejoice’. This probably came from Gallo- Romance * walāre , a derivative of Frankish * wala ‘well’ (of which English well is a relative). Following its French model, the English adjective originally meant ‘showy, splendid, gorgeous’ as well as ‘spirited, brave’ and ‘c
• gall 英文词源 gall gall: Gall ‘bile’ [12], and by metaphorical extension ‘bitterness’ and ‘effrontery’, was borrowed from Old Norse gall . It gets its name ultimately from its colour, for its prehistoric Germanic ancestor * gallam or * gallon (which also produced German galle and Dutch gal ) goes back to Indo-European * ghol -, * ghel -, which also gave English gold , jaundice , yellow
• gale 英文词源 gale gale: [16] Gale is a puzzling word. An isolated early example of what appears to be the word, in the phrase gale wind (‘Our life like smoke or chaff is carried away as with a gale wind’, Zachary Boyd, The Last Battle 1619), suggests that it may originally have been an adjective. If this is so, a possible candidate as a source may be Norwegian galen ‘bad’ – making gale e
• galah 英文词源 galah "A small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts", Mid 19th century: from Yuwaalaraay (an Aboriginal language of New South Wales). 中文词源 galah ：粉红凤头鹦鹉，蠢人 来自澳大利亚土著语，可能来自拟声词，模仿这种鸟的叫声。俚语义笨蛋，傻鸟。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： galah
• galactic 英文词源 galactic (adj.) 1839, "of the Milky Way, of the bright band of stars around the night sky," from Late Latin galacticus , from galaxias (see galaxy ). In modern scientific sense "pertaining to (our) galaxy," from 1849. From 1844 as "of or pertaining to milk." 中文词源 galactic ：银河系的 来自galaxy, 银河系。拼写比较climax, climactic. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• gala 英文词源 gala gala: [17] Gala comes ultimately from Arabic khil’a , which denoted an ‘especially fine garment given as a presentation’. This original meaning persisted through Spanish gala and into Italian and French gala , from one or other of which English got it (‘Whereupon this King and the whole Court put on Galas [special festive attire]’, Cabala sive scrinia sacra 1654) and su
• gal 英文词源 gal (n.) slang pronunciation of girl , 1795, originally noted as a vulgarism (in Benjamin Dearborn's "Columbian Grammar"). Compare gell , 19c. literary form of the Northern England dialectal variant of girl , also g'hal , the girlfriend of a b'hoy (1849). Gal Friday is 1940, in reference to "Robinson Crusoe." 中文词源 gal ：女孩 来自girl的俚语发音。 该词的英语词源请
• gaiter 英文词源 gaiter gaiter: [18] Etymologically as well as semantically, gaiter is an ‘ankle covering’. It comes from French guêtre ‘gaiter’, which may well have been formed from Germanic * wirst -. This denoted ‘twist, turn’, and it has several modern derivatives which mean essentially ‘twisting joint’: German rist , for example, which has now migrated anatomically to the ‘inst
• gait 英文词源 gait (n.) c. 1300, gate "a going or walking, departure, journey," earlier "way, road, path" (c. 1200), from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse gata "way, road, path"), from Proto-Germanic *gatwon "a going" (cognates: Old High German gazza "street," German Gasse "a way, road," Gothic gatwo ), perhaps from PIE *ghe- "to release, let go." Meaning "manner of walking, carriage of the
• gainsay 英文词源 gainsay (v.) "contradict, deny, dispute," c. 1300, literally "say against," from gain- (Old English gegn- "against;" see again ) + say (v.). In Middle English it translates Latin contradicere . "Solitary survival of a once common prefix" [Weekley]. It also figured in such now-obsolete compounds as gain-taking "taking back again," gainclap "a counterstroke," gainbuy "redeem," Gaincomin
• gain 英文词源 gain gain: [15] Gain is Germanic in origin, although English acquired it via Old French. Its distant ancestor is the Germanic noun * waithā . The etymological meaning of this was ‘hunting ground’ (it came ultimately from a prehistoric Indo-European base * wei -, which also produced Lithuanian vyti ‘pursue, hunt’ and Sanskrit veti , vayati ‘seeks, follows’), but gradually
• gaily 英文词源 gaily (adj.) also gayly , "with mirth and frolic," late 14c., from Middle English gai (see gay ) + -ly (2). "The spelling gaily is the more common, and is supported by the only existing analogy, that of daily " [OED]. 中文词源 gaily ：欢乐地，艳丽地 来自gay, 欢乐。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gaily 词源， gaily 含义。