oath的词源

英文词源

oath (n.): Old English að "oath, judicial swearing, solemn appeal to deity in witness of truth or a promise," from Proto-Germanic *aithaz (cognates: Old Norse eiðr, Swedish ed, Old Saxon, Old Frisian eth, Middle Dutch eet, Dutch eed, German eid, Gothic aiþs "oath"), from PIE *oi-to- "an oath" (cognates: Old Irish oeth "oath"). Common to Celtic and Germanic, possibly a loan-word from one to the other, but the history is obscure. In reference to careless invocations of pinity, from late 12c.

来自古英语ath,发誓，以神的名义起誓所言为真，来自Proto-Germanic*aithaz,来自PIE*oito,发誓。引申词义诅咒。

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