mistake的词源

英文词源

mistake

mistake: [13] Mistake originally meant literally ‘take in error, take the wrong thing’. It was borrowed from Old Norse mistaka, a compound verb formed from the prefix mis- ‘wrongly’ and taka ‘take’. This sense survived in English for some time (‘to be ever busy, and mistake away the bottles and cans … before they be but half drunk of’, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair 1614), but gradually through the late Middle English period the notion of ‘error’ came to the fore (it was already present in the Old Norse verb, which was used reflexively for ‘go wrong’, and was probably reinforced by Old French mesprendre, literally ‘take wrongly’, which was also used for ‘err’).

The noun use, ‘error’, emerged in the 17th century.
=> take

mistake (v.)

early 14c., "to commit an offense;" late 14c., "to misunderstand, misinterpret," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mistaka "take in error, miscarry," from mis- "wrongly" (see mis- (1)) + taka "take" (see take (v.)). Related: Mistook; mistaking.

mistake (n.)

1630s, from mistake (v.). Meaning "unintended pregnancy" is from 1957.

中文词源

mistake：错误，失误

mis-,坏的，错的，不好的，take,采取手段。即采取错误手段，引申词义错误，失误。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：mistake 词源，mistake 含义。

mistake：错误，误解，过失

词根词缀： mis-错误 + take拿