pillow的词源
英文词源
- pillow
- pillow: [OE] Pillow in a recognizable form emerged in the 14th century. It was based on an inflected form of Old English pyle ‘pillow’. This came via a prehistoric West Germanic *pulwīn (source also of German pfühl and Dutch peluw ‘pillow’) from Latin pulvīnus ‘pillow’, a word of unknown origin.
- pillow (n.)
- Middle English pilwe, from Old English pyle "pillow," from West Germanic *pulwi(n) (cognates: Old Saxon puli, Middle Dutch polu, Dutch peluw, Old High German pfuliwi, German Pfühl), an early borrowing (2c. or 3c.) from Latin pulvinus "little cushion, small pillow," of uncertain origin. Modern spelling is from mid-15c. Pillow fight (n.) attested from 1837; slang pillow talk (n.) first recorded 1939.
- pillow (v.)
- 1620s, from pillow (n.). Related: Pillowed; pillowing.
中文词源
pillow起源于拉丁语。原写作pulvinus，意思是“垫子”，进入英语后写作pylu，后又变为pillow.这种拼法的变化是简直想象不到的。但词义的变化并不大。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：pillow 词源，pillow 含义。
来自古英语pyle,枕头，来自West Germanic*pulwi,借自拉丁语pulvinus,垫子，枕头，词源不详。
