drowsy的词源

英文词源

drowsy

drowsy: [15] The etymological notion underlying drowsy seems to be of heaviness, with eyelids falling and the head nodding over the chest. The word probably comes from a Germanic base *drūs-, which also produced drūsian, an Old English verb meaning ‘be slow and sleepy’ which did not survive into the Middle English period (modern English drowse [16] is a back-formation from drowsy). A variant of this base is the possible source of English dreary and drizzle.
=> dream, drizzle

drowsy (adj.)

1520s, probably ultimately from Old English drusan, drusian "sink," also "become languid, slow, or inactive" (related to dreosan "to fall"), from Proto-Germanic *drus- (see dreary). But there is no record of it in Middle English. Related: Drowsily; drowsiness.

中文词源

drowsy：打盹

来自PIE*dhreu, 滴，掉落，词源同drop, dreary. 引申义耷拉着头，打盹。

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