journey的词源
英文词源
- journey
- journey: [13] Etymologically, a journey is a ‘day’s’ travel. The word comes via Old French jornee from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta. This in turn was derived from Latin diurnum ‘daily allowance or ration’, a noun use of the adjective diurnus ‘daily’, which was based on diēs ‘day’. The specific notion of a ‘day’s’ travel had died out by the mid-16th century, leaving only the more general ‘travel’.
But before going altogether, ‘day’ left its mark on another manifestation of the word journey: the word journeyman ‘qualified worker’ [15]. This has no connection with ‘travelling’; it originally denoted one who was qualified to do a ‘day’s’ work. Another Latin derivative of diurnus was the adjective diurnātis, which has given English diurnal [15], journal [14] (first cousin to diary), and journalism [19]. Sojourn belongs to the same language family.
=> diary, diurnal, journal, sojourn - journey (n.)
- c. 1200, "a defined course of traveling; one's path in life," from Old French journee "day's work or travel" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin diurnum "day," noun use of neuter of Latin diurnus "of one day" (see diurnal). Meaning "act of traveling by land or sea" is c. 1300. In Middle English it also meant "a day" (c. 1400); a day's work (mid-14c.); "distance traveled in one day" (mid-13c.), and as recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day."
- journey (v.)
- mid-14c., "travel from one place to another," from Anglo-French journeyer, Old French journoier, from journee (see journey (n.)). Related: Journeyed; journeying.
中文词源
来自古法语journee,一天的行程或工作，来自拉丁语diurnum,天，一天，词源同diurnal.后词义不再受一天的行程所局限，引申词义行程，长途旅程。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：journey 词源，journey 含义。
journey可追溯至拉丁语名词dies, diei，n(一天,白天)。基于dies的形容词diurnus(每天的),名词用法为diurnum(一天的工作量),在古法语中为jornee/jour(一天),进入英语为journey。因此journey原义为“一天的工作量,一天往返的旅程”。到16世纪中期,这一原义消失,只保留了“旅行”的意义。“一天的工作量”在journeyman(熟练工人)中还能找到踪迹。只有能一天完成“一天的工作量”才算得上是“熟练工人”,而其与“旅行”却没有任何的关系。其它基于以上词源的英语词汇还有diary, diurnal。
词根词缀： -journ-一天 + -ey(= -y)
同源词：diary, diurnal, -journ-
