fro的词源

英文词源

fro

fro: see from

fro (adv., prep.)

"away, backwards," c. 1200, Northern English and Scottish dialectal fra, Midlands dialect fro, from Old Norse fra "from," from Proto-Germanic *fra "forward, away from," from PIE *pro- (see pro-). The Norse word is equivalent to Old English fram, thus fro is a doublet of from.

中文词源

fro：向那边，向后

可追溯至原始印欧语*pro(从前,前面)、古斯堪的纳维亚语fra;主要在短语to and fro(adv.来来往往地,往复地)中使用。

同源词：first, for, fore, former, foremost, forth, from, before

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