do的词源

英文词源

do

do: [OE] Not surprisingly, do is a verb of great antiquity. It goes back to the Indo-European base *dhē- (source also of English deed and doom), which signified ‘place, put’. This sense remains uppermost in descendants such as Sanskrit dhāand Greek títhēmi (related to English theme), but a progression to ‘make, do’ shows itself in Latin facere (source of English fact and a host of other words) and West Germanic *dōn. ‘Make’ is now the central signification of English do, although traces of the earlier ‘put, place’ survive in such fossilized forms as don and doff, and ‘do someone to death’.

Other Germanic relatives include German tun and Dutch doen, but the Scandinavian languages have not adopted the verb, preferring instead for ‘do’ one which originally meant ‘make ready’ (Danish gøre, Swedish gåra) and which is related to English gear.
=> deed, doom, fact, fashion, theme

do (v.)

Middle English do, first person singular of Old English don "make, act, perform, cause; to put, to place," from West Germanic *don (cognates: Old Saxon duan, Old Frisian dua, Dutch doen, Old High German tuon, German tun), from PIE root *dhe- "to put, place, do, make" (see factitious).

Use as an auxiliary began in Middle English. Periphrastic form in negative sentences ("They did not think") replaced the Old English negative particles ("Hie ne wendon"). Slang meaning "to do the sex act with or to" is from 1913. Expression do or die is attested from 1620s. Compare does, did, done.

do (n.)

first (and last) note of the diatonic scale, by 1754, from do, used as a substitution for ut (see gamut) for sonority's sake, first in Italy and Germany. U.S. slang do-re-mi "money" is from 1920s, probably a pun on dough in its slang sense of "cash."

中文词源

do：做

来自PIE*dhe, 做，制造，放置，词源同fact, theme.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：do 词源，do 含义。

do：做，执行

可追溯至古印欧语dhe-("地方,放置",--也是英语deed和doom的词源)。"地方,放置"的意义在后续的梵语dha-和希腊语tithemi(英语theme的同源词)中依然保留,延续到日耳曼语don出现了"制,做"的意义,到英语的do,"做"是其最主要的意义;在其它日耳曼语分支中,德语tun(做)和荷兰语doen(做)是英语do的同源词。

同源词：deed, doom, theme