feckless的词源
英文词源
- feckless
- feckless: [16] From an etymological point of view, feckless is simply another way of saying ineffective. It originated in Scotland, where from the 15th century the local population economized on the pronunciation of effect, reducing it to feck (this survived into modern times in the sense ‘efficacy’). From it was formed feckless, literally ‘having no effect’, and also feckful ‘efficient, vigorous’, which never made it further south than northern England.
=> effect - feckless (adj.)
- 1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect (n.), + -less. Popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dialectal obscurity. Related: Fecklessly; fecklessness.
中文词源
feck, 缩写自effect, 效果，价值。-less, 没有，无。词义引申为差劲的，品格差的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：feckless 词源，feckless 含义。
它是effectless（无效的）的缩写，-less表“无...的”；对于effect（影响，效果），前缀ef-表“出，外”，词根fect表“做”，本义为“做出”，做出的行为会产生“影响”；因而feckless本义是“无影响的”，对社会无丝毫影响的人是“没出息的”。
