mourn的词源

英文词源

mourn (v.): Old English murnan "to mourn, bemoan, long after," also "be anxious about, be careful" (class III strong verb; past tense mearn, past participle murnen), from Proto-Germanic *murnan "to remember sorrowfully" (cognates: Old Saxon mornon, Old High German mornen, Gothic maurnan "to mourn," Old Norse morna "to pine away"), probably from PIE root *(s)mer- "to remember" (see memory); or, if the Old Norse sense is the base one, from *mer- "to die, wither." Related: Mourned; mourning.

来自古英语murnan,哀悼，悲伤，焦急，可能来自PIE*smer,记忆，词源同memory,martyr.可能来自比喻用法，即由记忆引申回想，哀伤，哀悼等。

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