knife的词源

英文词源

knife

knife: [11] Knife is not a native English word, but a borrowing. It came from Old Norse knífr, which survives also in modern Swedish knif and Danish knif. It can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *knībaz, which also produced German kneif ‘cobbler’s knife’, and was borrowed by French as canif ‘knife’, but its previous ancestry is not known.

knife (n.)

late Old English cnif, probably from Old Norse knifr, from Proto-Germanic *knibaz (cognates: Middle Low German knif, Middle Dutch cnijf, German kneif), of uncertain origin. To further confuse the etymology, there also are forms in -p-, such as Dutch knijp, German kneip. French canif "penknife" (mid-15c.) is borrowed from Middle English or Norse.

knife (v.)

1865, from knife (n.). Related: Knifed; knifing.

中文词源

knife：刀，匕首

来自古英语cnif,刀，匕首。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：knife 词源，knife 含义。

knife：刀子

也许你会问，为什么用餐刀子是圆头的呢？这要归功于法国政治家及红衣主教黎希留（Richelieu，1585-1642）。过去的餐用刀子都是尖头的。有一次宴会上，黎希留看见他的一位客人拿刀尖儿剔牙，他大为恼火，觉得伤了他的大雅，于是第二天就命令管家把所有的刀尖儿都给锉圆了。到了大约1700年时，这种圆头儿的刀子开始普遍受到人们的欢迎，直到今天。

Knife一词在古英语中写作cnif。