meadow的词源

英文词源

meadow

meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as mǣd. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, mǣdwe, has become modern English meadow.
=> mow

meadow (n.)

Old English mædwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of mæd (see mead (n.2)).

中文词源

meadow：草地

来自古英语maedwe,来自Proto-Germanic*medwo,来自PIE*metwa,割过的草地，来自*me,割草，割谷子，可能来自拟声词。最后词义演变成草地本身。比较pork,farrow,furrow.

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