英语词源

• warrant 英文词源 warrant warrant: [13] Warrant probably goes back ultimately to werenti ‘protector’, a noun use of the present participle of Old High German werren ‘protect’, which in turn was formed from the base * wer - ‘watch, be on one’s guard, take care’ (source of English ward , wary , etc). This was borrowed into medieval Latin as warantus , and passed into English via Old Norther
• warp 英文词源 warp warp: [OE] Warp originally meant ‘throw’ (‘Saint Paul’s head after his decease in a deep vewar [fishpond] warped was’, Scottish Legends of the Saints 1375). The notion of ‘bending’ or ‘twisting’ is a secondary development (first recorded in the 14th century). Its immediate inspiration may have been the related Old Norse past participle orpinn ‘warped’, but t
• warn 英文词源 warn warn: [OE] Warn , and its German relative warnen , go back to a prehistoric West Germanic * warnōjan . This was formed from the base * war - ‘watch, be on one’s guard, take care’, which also produced English ward , ware , wary , etc. Germanic * warnjan , which evidently had close links with * warnōjan , was borrowed into French, and surfaced in English as garnish . = garn
• warmonger 英文词源 warmonger (n.) also war-monger , 1580s, from war (n.) + monger (n.). First attested in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and perhaps coined by him. 中文词源 warmonger ：战争贩子 war,战争，monger,商人，贩子，中间人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： warmonger 词源， warmonger 含义。 warmonger ：战争贩子 war,战争，monger,商人，贩子，
• warm 英文词源 warm warm: [OE] English, German, and Dutch warm and Swedish and Danish varm go back to a common prehistoric source, * warmaz . This in turn was descended from Indo-European * ghworm -, * ghwerm -, which also produced Greek thermós ‘hot’ (source of English thermal , thermometer , etc), Latin formus ‘warm’ and fornus ‘oven’ (source of English fornication and furnace ), and
• warlord 英文词源 warlord (n.) also war-lord , 1856, from war (n.) + lord (n.). Often a translation of German Kriegsherr or Chinese junfa . 中文词源 warlord ：军阀 war,战争，lord,主，上帝。用来指军阀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： warlord 词源， warlord 含义。 warlord ：军阀 war,战争，lord,主，上帝。用来指军阀。
• warlock 英文词源 warlock warlock: [OE] Etymologically, a warlock is a ‘liar on oath’, and hence a ‘traitor’ or ‘deceiver’. Indeed, the word originally meant ‘traitor’ in English. It soon broadened out into a general term of abuse, and it was also used as an epithet for the ‘Devil’, but the modern sense ‘evil sorcerer’ did not emerge until the 14th century. It started life as a
• warfarin 英文词源 Warfarin (n.) 1950, from WARF , acronym from Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation + -arin , from Coumarin . The organization describes itself as "an independent, nonprofit foundation chartered to support research at the U[niversity of] W[isconsin]-Madison and the designated technology transfer organization for the university." 中文词源 warfarin ：灭鼠剂 WARF,来自Wisconsin Al
• warfare 英文词源 warfare (n.) mid-15c., from war (n.) + fare (see fare (n.)). 中文词源 warfare ：战争 war,战争，fare,旅程，进行。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： warfare 词源， warfare 含义。 warfare ：战争；战争状态 词根词缀： war战争 + fare走 warfare ：战争 war,战争，fare,旅程，进行。
• warehouse 英文词源 warehouse (n.) mid-14c., from ware (n.) + house . Compare Dutch warenhuis , German warenhaus . Meaning "large impersonal institution" is American English colloquial, first attested 1970. warehouse (v.) 1799, "deposit or secure in a warehouse," from warehouse (n.). In the colloquial sense, especially of mentally disabled persons, from 1972. Related: Warehoused ; warehousing . 中文词源
• ware 英文词源 ware ware: English has two distinct words ware , but the likelihood is that both come from the same ultimate source – the prehistoric Germanic base * war -, * wer -. This denoted ‘watch, be on one’s guard, take care’, and also produced English ward and warn . It may have had links with Latin verērī ‘fear’ (source of English revere ). From it was formed the adjective * wa
• wardrobe 英文词源 wardrobe wardrobe: [14] A wardrobe was originally a room in which clothes were kept. It did not shrink to a cupboard until the 18th century. The word was borrowed from Old Northern French warderobe , a compound formed from warder ‘look after, keep’ (a relative of English ward ) and robe ‘garment’. = robe , ward wardrobe (n.) early 14c., "room where wearing apparel is kept," ea
• warder 英文词源 warder (n.) c. 1400, "guardian of an entrance," from Anglo-French wardere , wardour "guardian, keeper, custodian" (Old French gardeor ), agent noun from Old North French warder "to guard, keep, maintain, uphold" (Old French garder ), from Frankish *wardon , from Proto-Germanic *wardon "to guard" (see ward (v.)). 中文词源 warder ：看守，狱吏 来自ward,看管，看护，用于指
• warden 英文词源 warden (n.) c. 1200, "one who guards," from Old North French wardein , from Frankish *warding- (which became Old French guardenc ), from Proto-Germanic *wardon "to watch, guard" (see ward (v.)). Meaning "governor of a prison" is recorded from c. 1300. 中文词源 warden ：看护人，监护人 来自ward,看管，看护。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： warde
• ward 英文词源 ward ward: [OE] Ward and guard are ultimately the same word. Both go back to a prehistoric West Germanic * wartho ‘watching over’. But whereas guard reached English via Old French, ward is a lineal descendant of the Germanic word. The noun originally meant ‘watching, guarding’; its application to an individual room of an institution where people are guarded or looked after (at
• warbler 英文词源 warbler (n.) 1610s, agent noun from warble (v.). Applied to Old World songbirds by 1773 and to North American birds that look like them but sing little by 1783. 中文词源 warbler ：莺 来自warble,颤音。因莺如颤音般的啼叫而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： warbler 词源， warbler 含义。 warbler ：莺 来自 warble,颤音。因莺如
• warble 英文词源 warble warble: [14] The etymological notion underlying the word warble is of ‘whirling around’; its application to sounds, originally in the sense ‘whirl of notes, trill’, is a secondary development. It was borrowed from Old Northern French werbler , a derivative of the noun werble ‘trill, melody’. And this in turn came from Frankish * hwirbilōn ‘whirl, trill’, which
• war 英文词源 war war: [12] The word war was acquired from werre , the northern dialect form of Old French guerre . This in turn came from prehistoric Germanic * werra ‘strife’, which was formed from the base * wers - (source also of English worse and German wirren ‘confuse’). Warrior [13] is from the Old Northern French derivative werreieor . The diminutive of guerra , the Spanish equivale
• wapiti 英文词源 wapiti "A red deer of a large race native to North America", Early 19th century: from Shawnee, literally 'white rump'. 中文词源 wapiti ：马鹿 来自北美土著语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wapiti 词源， wapiti 含义。
• wanton 英文词源 wanton wanton: [13] Someone who is wanton is etymologically ‘lacking in proper upbringing or discipline’. The word was formed from the Middle English prefix wan - ‘un-’ (a reduced form of the adjective wane ‘lacking’, which is related to the modern English verb wane ) and towen , a descendant of Old English togen , the past participle of tēon ‘pull’, hence ‘bring up
• wanting 英文词源 wanting (adj.) early 14c., wantand , "deficient, lacking," present participle adjective from want (v.). Modern spelling from 16c. 中文词源 wanting ：缺乏 来自want,缺乏。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wanting 词源， wanting 含义。
• wanted 英文词源 wanted (adj.) 1690s, "lacking;" 1812, "sought by the police;" past participle adjective from want (v.). Wanted poster attested by 1945. 中文词源 wanted ：受通缉的 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wanted 词源， wanted 含义。
• want 英文词源 want want: [12] Etymologically, to want something is to ‘lack’ it (a sense still intact in the noun want ); ‘wishing to have’ is a secondary extension of this. The word was borrowed from Old Norse vanta ‘be lacking’. This in turn was descended from a prehistoric Germanic * wanatōn , which was formed from the base * wan - ‘lacking’ (source also of English wane ). = wan
• wanker 英文词源 wanker (n.) 1940s, "masturbator," British slang, from wank "to masturbate," of unknown origin. General sense of "contemptible person" is attested from 1972. Compare sense evolution of jerk (n.). 中文词源 wanker ：下流坯子 来自wank,手淫，俚语义下流坯子。比较felon. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wanker 词源， wanker 含义。 wanker ：下
• wank 英文词源 wank (n.) "act of (male) masturbation," 1948, slang. As a verb, from 1950. Related: Wanked ; wanking . 中文词源 wank ：手淫 词源不详，可能来自拟声词。比较jerk. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wank 词源， wank 含义。
• wangle 英文词源 wangle (v.) "obtain something by trickery," 1888, originally British printer's slang for "fake by manipulation;" perhaps an alteration of waggle , or of wankle (now dialectal) "unsteady, fickle," from Old English wancol (see wench (n.)). Brought into wider use by World War I soldiers. 中文词源 wangle ：设法搞到手 可能来自waggle拼写变体，摇摆。引申词义摇尾乞怜
• wane 英文词源 wane wane: [OE] Wane and Norwegian vana ‘spoil, waste’ are the only survivors of a family of Germanic verbs that goes back to a prehistoric * wanōjan . This was derived from the base * wan - ‘lacking’, which also produced English want . The related but now defunct English adjective wane ‘lacking’ is represented in the first syllable of wanton . = want , wanton wane (v.) O
• wanderlust 英文词源 wanderlust (n.) 1902, from German Wanderlust , literally "desire for wandering" (see wander + lust ). 中文词源 wanderlust ：旅行癖 wander,漫游，lust,癖好。引申词义旅行癖。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wanderlust 词源， wanderlust 含义。 wanderlust ：旅行癖 wander,漫游，lust,癖好。引申词义旅行癖。
• wander 英文词源 wander wander: [OE] To wander is etymologically to ‘turn’ off the correct path. The word comes, together with German wandern , from a prehistoric West Germanic * wandrōjan , which was derived from the base * wand -, * wend - ‘turn’ (source also of English wand , went , etc). The German compound wanderlust , literally ‘traveldesire’, was borrowed into English at the beginn
• wand 英文词源 wand wand: [12] A wand is etymologically a ‘bendable’ stick. The word was borrowed from Old Norse vöndr ‘thin straight stick’. This in turn went back to a prehistoric Germanic * wanduz , which was derived from * wand -, * wend - ‘turn’ (source also of English wander , went , etc). A stick that can be ‘turned’ is one that can be ‘bent’, hence a ‘flexible stick’
• wananchi 英文词源 wananchi "(In East Africa) the ordinary people; the public", Kiswahili, plural of mwananchi 'inhabitant, citizen'. 中文词源 wananchi ：人们 来自非洲斯瓦西里语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wananchi 词源， wananchi 含义。
• wan 英文词源 wan (adj.) Old English wann "dark, dusky, lacking luster," later "leaden, pale, gray," of uncertain origin, and not found in other Germanic languages. The connecting notion is colorlessness. Perhaps related to wane . Related: Wanly ; wanness . 中文词源 wan ：苍白的，无血色的 来自Proto-Germanic*wano,缺乏，空无，词源同wane,want。引申词义苍白的，无血色的
• waltz 英文词源 waltz waltz: [18] To waltz is etymologically to ‘roll’. The word was adapted from German walzen . This meant literally ‘roll, revolve’. Its application to a dance that involves spinning round is a secondary development. It came from the prehistoric Germanic base * wal -, * wel - ‘roll’, which also produced English wallow , welter , etc, and it is ultimately related to Engl
• walrus 英文词源 walrus walrus: [17] Etymologically, a walrus is probably a ‘whale-horse’. The word seems to have been borrowed from Dutch walrus , which was an inversion of a presumed prehistoric Germanic compound represented by Old English horschwæl and Old Norse hrosshvalr . (The inversion may have been due to the influence of Dutch walvisch ‘whale’ – literally ‘whale-fish’ – but i
• walnut 英文词源 walnut walnut: [OE] A walnut is etymologically a ‘foreign nut’. Its name alludes to the fact that the nut was regarded by the Germanic peoples as an exotic import from southern Europe, land of Romans and Celts (their own native nut was the hazel). Prehistoric Germanic * walkhaz originally meant ‘Celtic’ (it was borrowed from Latin Volcae , the name of a Celtic people), but it
• wally 英文词源 wally (n.) term of admiration, Scottish, early 16c., of unknown origin. As a masc. proper name, a diminutive of Walter , and this might be the source of the teen slang term "unfashionable person" (1969). 中文词源 wally ：笨蛋 可能来自人名Walter的昵称，用于俚语义傻瓜，笨蛋。比较dick,doll,willy. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wally 词
• Wall Street 英文词源 Wall Street (n.) "U.S. financial world," 1836, from street in New York City that is home to many investment firms and stock traders, as well as NYSE. The street so called because it ran along the interior of the defensive wall of the old Dutch colonial town. 中文词源 Wall Street ：华尔街 华尔街是美国纽约市曼哈顿南区的一条街道，集中了美国大财团和金融
• wallow 英文词源 wallow wallow: [OE] To wallow is etymologically to ‘roll’ about. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base * wol -, * wel - ‘roll’, which also produced English helix , involve , vault , volume , etc. From this was descended prehistoric Germanic * wal -, * wel - (source of English waltz , welter , etc, and possibly of wallet ). The extended form * walw - produced
• wallop 英文词源 wallop wallop: [14] Wallop and gallop are doublets – that is to say, they began life as the same word, but have gradually drifted apart. Their ultimate common source was Frankish * walahlaupan ‘jump well’. This was a compound verb formed from * wala ‘well’ and * hlaupan ‘jump’, a relative of English leap . This was borrowed into Old French as galoper , which gave English
• wallflower 英文词源 wallflower (n.) 1570s, type of flowering plant cultivated in gardens, native to southern Europe, where it grows on old walls and in rocky places, from wall (n.) + flower (n.). Colloquial sense of "woman who sits by the wall at parties, often for want of a partner" is first recorded 1820. 中文词源 wallflower ：桂竹香，壁花 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• wallet 英文词源 wallet wallet: [19] Etymologically, a wallet may be something ‘rolled’ up. The word originally denoted a ‘traveller’s pack’; its application to a ‘small flat case for money and papers’ arose in 19th-century American English. It was probably borrowed from an Anglo-Norman * walet , which could have been formed from the prehistoric Germanic base * wal - ‘roll’ (source a
• wallah 英文词源 wallah (n.) also walla , "person employed (in some specified business)," Anglo-Indian, from Hindi -wala , suffix forming adjectives with the sense "pertaining to, connected with;" the functional equivalent of English -er (1). Europeans took it to mean "man, fellow" and began using it as a word. 中文词源 wallah ：从事某工作的人 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问
• wallaby 英文词源 wallaby (n.) kind of small kangaroo, 1826, from native Australian wolaba . 中文词源 wallaby ：沙袋鼠 来自澳大利亚土著语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wallaby 词源， wallaby 含义。
• wall 英文词源 wall wall: [OE] Wall was borrowed into Old English from Latin vallum ‘rampart’. This originally denoted a ‘stockade made of stakes’, and it was derived from vallus ‘stake’. German wall , Dutch wal , and Swedish vall , also borrowings from Latin, preserve its meaning ‘rampart, embankment’, but English wall has become considerably wider in its application. An interval is
• walk-on 英文词源 walk-on (n.) "minor non-speaking role," 1902, theatrical slang, from the verbal phrase walk on , attested in theater jargon by 1897 with a sense "appear in crowd scenes," from walk (v.) + on (adv.). Meaning "actor who has such a part" is attested from 1946. The sports team sense is recorded from 1974. 中文词源 walk-on ：跑龙套 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• walkies 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random fetch fetch: [OE] Fetch comes from the Old English verb fetian ‘go and get’, which survived dialectally as fet well into the 19th century. In the late Old English period a variant feccan developed, from which we get the modern English verb’s /ch/ ending. Its ultimate origin has been disputed. Perhaps the likeliest explanat
• walkabout 英文词源 walkabout (n.) "periodic migration by a westernized Aboriginal into the bush," 1828, Australian English, from walk (v.) + about . 中文词源 walkabout ：要人的出巡，（澳大利亚土著）短期丛林流浪 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： walkabout 词源， walkabout 含义。
• walk 英文词源 walk walk: [OE] Walk originally meant ‘roll about, toss’ (an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon glossary translated Latin ferventis oceani as ‘walking sea’). This gradually broadened out via ‘move about’ to ‘go on a journey’, but the specific application to ‘travelling on foot’ did not emerge until the 13th century. The verb came from a prehistoric Germanic * walkan , which
• Waldorf salad 英文词源 Waldorf salad 1911, from Waldorf -Astoria Hotel in New York, where it first was served. 中文词源 Waldorf salad ：沃尔多夫色拉 因创自纽约Walforf酒店而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Waldorf salad 词源， Waldorf salad 含义。
• wakeboarding 英文词源 wakeboarding "The sport of riding on a short, wide board resembling a surfboard and performing acrobatic manoeuvres while being towed behind a motor boat", 1990s: from wake 2 , on the pattern of surfboarding . 中文词源 wakeboarding ：尾流滑水 wake,尾流，boarding,滑板。用于指尾流滑水运动。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wakeboarding 词源
• wake 英文词源 wake wake: English has two distinct words wake . The older, ‘not sleep’ [OE], goes back ultimately to the prolific Indo-European base * wog -, * weg - ‘be active or lively’. This proliferated semantically in many directions, including ‘growth’ (in which it gave English vegetable ) and ‘staying awake’, which developed into ‘watching’ and from there into ‘guarding’
• waiver 英文词源 waiver (n.) "act of waiving," 1620s (modern usage is often short for waiver clause ); from Anglo-French legal usage of infinitive as a noun (see waive ). Baseball waivers is recorded from 1907. Other survivals of noun use of infinitives in Anglo-French legalese include disclaimer , merger , rejoinder , misnomer , ouster , retainer , attainder . 中文词源 waiver ：弃权声明 来自
• waive 英文词源 waive waive: [13] To waive something is etymologically to make a ‘waif’ of it. The word comes from Anglo-Norman weyver , a derivative of the noun weif (source of English waif [14]). This originally meant ‘ownerless property’, and so the verb came to be used for ‘abandon’. Its specific application in English to ‘relinquishing a right’ emerged in English in the 15th cent
• waitress 英文词源 waitress (n.) "woman who waits tables at a restaurant," 1834, from waiter + -ess . 中文词源 waitress ：女服务员 来自waiter,服务员，-ess,阴性后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： waitress 词源， waitress 含义。 waitress ：女服务员 来自 waiter,服务员，-ess,阴性后缀。
• waiter 英文词源 waiter (n.) late 14c., "attendant, watchman," agent noun from wait (v.). Sense of "attendant at a meal, servant who waits at tables" is from late 15c., originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. 中文词源 waiter ：服务员 来自wait,等待。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： waiter 词源
• wait 英文词源 wait wait: [12] Wait originally meant ‘look, spy’. But the notion of remaining in hiding, keeping a watch on one’s enemies’ movements led via the sense ‘remain, stay (in expectation)’ to, in the 17th century, ‘defer action’. The word was borrowed from Old Northern French waitier , which was itself a loanword from prehistoric Germanic * wakhtan (ultimate source also of
• waist 英文词源 waist waist: [14] Waist is something of a mystery word, but it is generally taken to denote etymologically ‘girth to which one has grown’. It is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English * wæst , which would have gone back to prehistoric Germanic * wakhs - ‘grow’, source of English wax ‘grow’ (as in wax and wane ). Related forms which support this hypothesis inclu
• wainscot 英文词源 wainscot wainscot: [14] Wainscot was borrowed from Middle Low German wagenschot . It is not altogether clear what the origins of this were, but the generally accepted theory is that it is a compound of wagen ‘waggon’ and schot ‘planks, boards’, and that it therefore originally meant ‘planks used for making waggons’. To begin with it was applied in English to ‘highgrade o
• wain 英文词源 wain (n.) Old English wægn "wheeled vehicle, wagon, cart," from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (see wagon ). Largely fallen from use by c. 1600, but kept alive by poets, who found it easier to rhyme on than wagon . As a name for the Big Dipper/Plough, it is from Old English (see Charles's Wain ). 中文词源 wain ：运货马车，战车 来自Proto-Germanic*wagnaz,马车，战车，词源同
• wail 英文词源 wail (v.) c. 1300 (intransitive); mid-14c. (transitive), from Old Norse væla "to lament," from væ "woe" (see woe ). Of jazz musicians, "to play very well," attested from 1955, American English slang ( wailing "excellent" is attested from 1954). Related: Wailed ; wailer . wail (n.) c. 1300; see wail (v.). 中文词源 wail ：哭号，恸哭 拟声词。比较woe. 该词的英语词源
• waif 英文词源 waif (n.) late 14c., "unclaimed property, flotsam, stray animal," from Anglo-French waif (13c., Old French guaif ) "ownerless property, something lost;" as an adjective, "not claimed, outcast, abandoned," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse veif "waving thing, flag," from Proto-Germanic *waif- , from PIE *weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically" (see vibrate
• wagtail 英文词源 wagtail (n.) c. 1500, kind of small bird that has its tail in continuous motion (late 12c. as a surname), earlier wagstart (mid-15c.), from wag (v.) + tail (n.). From 18c. as "a harlot," but this sense seems to be implied much earlier: If therefore thou make not thy mistress a goldfinch, thou mayst chance to find her a wagtaile. [Lyly, "Midas," 1592] 中文词源 wagtail ：鹡鸰 即摇
• wagon 英文词源 wagon (n.) "four-wheeled vehicle to carry heavy loads," late 15c., from Middle Dutch wagen , waghen , from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (cognates: Old English wægn , Modern English wain , Old Saxon and Old High German wagan , Old Norse vagn , Old Frisian wein , German Wagen ), from PIE *wogh-no- , suffixed form of root *wegh- "to carry, to move" (cognates: Sanskrit vahanam "vessel, ship,"
• Wagnerian 英文词源 leitmotif (n.) 1876, "a musical figure to which some definite meaning is attached," from German Leitmotiv , literally "lead motive," from leiten "to lead" (see lead (v.1)) + Motiv (see motive ). A term associated with Wagnerian musical drama, though the thing itself is at least as old as Mozart. "The leitmotif must be characteristic of the person or thing it is intended to represent."
• waggle 英文词源 waggle (v.) late 15c. (implied in waggling ), frequentative of wag (v.). Compare Dutch waggelen "to waggle," Old High German wagon "to move, shake," German wackeln "to totter." Transitive sense from 1590s. Related: Waggled . 中文词源 waggle ：摆动 来自wag,摇摆，-le,表反复。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： waggle 词源， waggle 含义。 waggle ：
• waggish 英文词源 waggish (adj.) "willing to make a fool of oneself, and fond of doing so to others," 1580s, from wag (n.) + -ish . Related: Waggishly ; waggishness . 中文词源 waggish ：诙谐的 来自wag,摇摆，摇尾，引申义讲笑话，扮小丑，诙谐幽默的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： waggish 词源， waggish 含义。 waggish ：诙谐的 来自 wag,摇
• wager 英文词源 wager (n.) c. 1300, wajour "a promise, a vow, something pledged or sworn to;" also "a bet, a wager; stakes, something laid down as a bet," from Anglo-French wageure , Old North French wagiere (Old French gagiere , Modern French gageure ) "pledge, security," from wagier "to pledge" (see wage (n.)). wager (v.) c. 1600 (intransitive); 1610s (transitive), from wager (n.). Related: Wagered
• wage 英文词源 wage wage: [14] Wage and gage (as in engage ) are doublets – that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have drifted apart over the centuries. The source in this case was prehistoric Germanic * wathjam ‘pledge’, which is also the ancestor of English wedding . It was borrowed into Old French as gage , which is where English gets gage from; but its Anglo- Norman
• wag 英文词源 wag wag: [13] Wag was derived from the Middle English descendant of Old English wagian ‘totter’, a word related to English wave of the sea. Waggle [15] was based on it. The noun wag ‘comical fellow’, first recorded in the 16th century, is generally taken to be short for waghalter , literally ‘someone who swings to and fro in a noose’, hence ‘someone destined for the gall
• waft 英文词源 waft waft: [16] A wafter was an ‘armed ship used for convoying others’ (the word was borrowed from Middle Dutch wachter ‘guard’, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic base as English wait , wake , and watch ). The verb waft was derived from it by back-formation, and at first was used for ‘convey by water, convoy’ (‘Because certain pirates … were lurking at the
• waffle 英文词源 waffle (n.) "kind of batter-cake, baked crisp in irons and served hot," 1744, from Dutch wafel "waffle," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wafel , from Proto-Germanic *wabila- "web, honeycomb" (cognates: Old High German waba "honeycomb," German Wabe ), related to Old High German weban , Old English wefan "to weave" (see weave (v.)). Sense of "honeycomb" is preserved in some combi
• wafer 英文词源 wafer wafer: [14] Wafer and waffle [18] are essentially the same word. Both come ultimately from a Low German term whose underlying etymological meaning was of a ‘honeycomb’- patterned cake or biscuit – a sense wafer has since lost. The ancestral form was wāfel , which seems to have come from the prehistoric Germanic base * wab -, * web - (source of English weave ) and is proba
• wadi 英文词源 wadi (n.) "watercourse," 1839, from Arabic wadi "seasonal watercourse," prop. participle of wada "it flowed." It forms the Guadal- in Spanish river names. 中文词源 wadi ：（中东和北非仅在雨后才有水的）干谷 来自阿拉伯语，季节性河流。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wadi 词源， wadi 含义。
• wader 英文词源 waders (n.) "waterproof high boots," 1841, plural agent noun from wade . 中文词源 wader ：涉禽 来自wade,涉水，引申词义涉禽，水鸟。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wader 词源， wader 含义。 wader ：涉禽 来自 wade,涉水，引申词义涉禽，水鸟。
• wade 英文词源 wade (v.) Old English wadan "to go forward, proceed, move, stride, advance" (the modern sense perhaps represented in oferwaden "wade across"), from Proto-Germanic *wadan (cognates: Old Norse vaða , Danish vade , Old Frisian wada , Dutch waden , Old High German watan , German waten "to wade"), from PIE root *wadh- (2) "to go," found only in Germanic and Latin (cognates: Latin vadere "
• waddle 英文词源 waddle (v.) "to walk with short steps, swaying from side to side; to walk as a duck does," 1590s, frequentative of wade . Related: Waddled ; waddling . The noun is recorded from 1690s. 中文词源 waddle ：蹒跚地走 来自wade,跋涉，-le,表反复。引申义蹒跚地走。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： waddle 词源， waddle 含义。 waddle ：蹒跚而
• wadding 英文词源 wadding (n.) "stuffing," 1620s, verbal noun from wad (v.). 中文词源 wadding ：填料，衬料 来自wad,填料，衬料。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wadding 词源， wadding 含义。
• wad 英文词源 wad (n.) early 15c., wadde , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin wadda (14c., source also of French ouate , Italian ovate ), or Dutch watten (source of German Watte ), or Middle English wadmal (c. 1300) "coarse woolen cloth," which seems to be from Old Norse vaðmal "a woolen fabric of Scandinavia," probably
• wacky 英文词源 wacky (adj.) "crazy, eccentric," 1935, variant of whacky (n.) "fool," late 1800s British slang, probably ultimately from whack "a blow, stroke," from the notion of being whacked on the head one too many times. 中文词源 wacky ：古怪的，疯癫的 来自whacky变体，击，打，引申义被打傻的。比较dingbat. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wacky 词
• wacko 英文词源 wacko (n.) extended form of wack , by 1971. 中文词源 wacko ：古怪的 来自wacky,古怪的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wacko 词源， wacko 含义。 wacko ：古怪的 来自 wacky,古怪的。
• wack 英文词源 wack (n.) "crazy person," 1938, back-formation from wacky . Adjective in slang sense of "worthless, stupid," is attested from late 1990s. 中文词源 wack ：劣质的 来自wacky的回构词，引申义劣质的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wack 词源， wack 含义。 wack ：劣质的 来自 wacky 的回构词，引申词义劣质的。
• with- 英文词源 midwife midwife: [14] A midwife is etymologically a ‘with-woman’. The mid - element represents the long extinct preposition mid ‘with’ (its Germanic relatives are still alive and well: German mit , Dutch met , and Swedish and Danish med ). Wife preserves the original meaning of Old English wīf , ‘woman’. The idea underlying the word is that a midwife is ‘with’ a woman
• windfall 英文词源 windfall (n.) mid-15c., from wind (n.1) + fall (n.1). Originally literal, in reference to wood or fruit blown down by the wind, and thus free to all. Figurative sense of "unexpected acquisition" is recorded from 1540s. 中文词源 windfall （意外之财）：贵族森林中被风吹落的果实 欧洲中世纪时，英国许多土地都掌握在贵族手中，包括大片的森林。
• wizard 英文词源 wizard wizard: [15] A wizard is etymologically a ‘wise’ man – indeed originally the word was used for ‘philosopher’ or ‘sage’, without any suggestion of magical practices. It was derived from wise . The distinction between philosophy and magic was sufficiently blurred in the Middle Ages for the sense ‘magician’ to emerge in the 16th century, and that is the one which
• wife 英文词源 wife wife: [OE] Wife originally meant simply ‘woman’, but the semantic restriction to ‘married woman’ began in the Old English period and has become more and more firmly established as the centuries have passed. Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib has largely been replaced by frau , and Dutch wijf , Swedish vif , and Danish viv are no longer front-line words. It is
• Wednesday 英文词源 Wednesday Wednesday: [OE] The Romans called the middle day of the week Mercurii diēs ‘Mercury’s day’ (source of French mercredi , Italian mercoledì , and Spanish miercoles ). The Germanic peoples equated Mercury with their own god Woden or Odin (whose name may etymologically mean the ‘inspired or mad one’), and they translated the Latin term accordingly, giving Dutch woens
• window 英文词源 window window: [13] A window is etymologically a ‘wind-eye’ – that is, an ‘eye’-like opening for admitting the air. The word was borrowed from Old Norse vindauga , a compound noun formed from vindr ‘wind’ and auga ‘eye’. Danish vindue is descended from the Old Norse form, which was also taken over by Irish as fuinneog . = eye , wind window (n.) c. 1200, literally "wi
• Vanuatu 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random solecism solecism: [16] Solecism ‘act of (grammatical) impropriety’ comes via Latin soloecismus from Greek soloikismós , a derivative of sóloikos ‘ungrammatical utterance’. This is said to have referred originally to the speech of Athenian colonists in Soloi, in ancient Cilicia, southern Turkey, held by snooty sophisti
• Vietnam 英文词源 Vietnam country in Southeast Asia, from Vietnamese Viet , the people's name + nam "south." Division into North and South lasted from 1954 to 1976. Vietnam War attested by 1963. 中文词源 Vietnam （越南）：越地以南的国家 越南原本是中国的一个附属国。汉朝设交趾郡，唐朝设安南都护府，五代时从中国独立 出来。1054年李朝改国名为大越
• Venezuela 英文词源 Venezuela Spanish, diminutive of Venecia "Venice" (see Venice ). Supposedly the name was given by Spanish sailors in 1499 when they saw a native village built on piles on Lake Maracaibo. Related: Venezuelan . 中文词源 Venezuela （委内瑞拉)：小威尼斯 委内瑞拉的英文名Venezuela来自西班牙语，是Venecia(Venice，威尼斯）的指小形式， 意思就是“小威