maze的词源

英文词源

maze

maze: [13] Maze was originally a verb (now obsolete) meaning ‘daze’, which arose by shortening of amaze. When it was first used as a noun it meant ‘delusion, delirium’, and it was not until the late 14th century that it began to be used for a ‘structure of bewildering complexity’.
=> amaze

maze (n.)

c. 1300, "delusion, bewilderment" (also as a verb, "stupefy, daze"), possibly from Old English *mæs, which is suggested by the compound amasod "amazed" and verb amasian "to confound, confuse" (see amaze). Perhaps related to Norwegian dialectal mas "exhausting labor," Swedish masa "to be slow or sluggish." Meaning "labyrinth" first recorded late 14c.

中文词源

maze：迷惑，迷失，迷宫

来自古英语*masian,迷惑的，来自Proto-Germanic*masona,使混乱，迷糊，来自PIE*sme,刮，涂抹，词源同smear,amaze.引申词义迷惑，迷失，后用于指迷宫。

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