glitter的词源

英文词源

glitter

glitter: [14] Glitter goes back to a Germanic *glit-, denoting ‘shining, bright’, which also produced German glitzern ‘sparkle’ (source of English glitz) and gleissen ‘glisten’ and Swedish glittra ‘glitter’. English probably acquired it via Old Norse glitra.
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glitter (v.)

c. 1300, glideren (late 14c. as gliteren), from an unrecorded Old English word or from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse glitra "to glitter," from Proto-Germanic *glit- "shining, bright" (cognates: Old English glitenian "to glitter, shine; be distinguished," Old High German glizzan, German glitzern, Gothic glitmunjan), from PIE *ghleid- (cognates: Greek khlidon, khlidos "ornament"), from root *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass (n.)). Related: Glittered; glittering. Other Middle English words for "to glitter" include glasteren and glateren.

glitter (n.)

c. 1600, "sparkling or scintillating light," from glitter (v.). As "sparkling powdery substance" used in ornamentation, by 1956. Glitter rock is from 1972.

中文词源

glitter：闪耀，光彩夺目

来自PIE*ghel, 照耀，发光，词源同glass, gold.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：glitter 词源，glitter 含义。

glitter：闪耀

来源于古印欧语gel-, ghel(光)。

同源词：glare, glass, glaze, gleam, glow, glance, glimpse 辨异：glare, gleam, glitterglare 指太阳等发强光;gleam 指月亮等发(微)光;glitter 指珠宝、星辰闪光