flail的词源

英文词源

flail: flail: [OE] Flail is a distant relative of flagellation [15]. Both go back ultimately to Latin flagrum ‘whip’. This had a diminutive form flagellum, which in prehistoric times was borrowed into West Germanic as *flagil-. It is assumed that Old English inherited it as *flegil (although this is not actually recorded), which, reinforced in Middle English times by the related Old French flaiel, produced modern English flail. Flagellation comes from the derived Latin verb flagellāre ‘whip’.
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flail (n.): implement for threshing grain, c. 1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which, if it existed, probably is from West Germanic *flagil (cognates: Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a West Germanic borrowing of Late Latin flagellum "winnowing tool, flail," in classical Latin "a whip" (see flagellum).
flail (v.): mid-15c., "to whip, scourge," from flail (n.). Sense of "to move like a flail" is from 1873. Related: Flailed; flailing.

来自flagellate, 鞭打，鞭笞。后用来指打谷工具，连枷。

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这是拉丁词源单词flagellum [flə'dʒeləm] n.[昆] 鞭毛；鞭子被英语本土化的结果（元音间的g脱落，flagellum>flail），类似fragil ['frædʒaɪl] adj.易碎的和frail [freɪl] adj.脆弱的。