mete-的词源
英文词源
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- stirrup




- stirrup: [OE] A stirrup is etymologically a ‘climbing rope’. The word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from the base *stig- ‘climb’ (source also of English stair and stile) and *raipaz (ancestor of English rope). The earliest stirrups were looped pieces of rope.
=> rope, stair, stile
中文词源
mete-:改变,在后,在上,元
来自希腊语meta,在中间,在其中,词源同middle.并由该希腊词引申出如下词义:1.改变,交换,可能来自其比喻义中心,在中心旋转,改变;2.在后,在上;3.元,始,玄。
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