dwindle的词源

英文词源

dwindle (v.)

1590s, apparently diminutive and frequentative of Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinan (cognates: Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine, Low German dwinen), from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling.

中文词源

dwindle：减少

词源同dye, 死亡，消逝。-le, 表反复，逐渐。即减少，逐渐消亡。

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