skill的词源

英文词源

skill: skill: [12] Skill etymologically denotes not a physical accomplishment, but the mental capacity to make ‘distinctions’. It was borrowed from Old Norse skil ‘distinction, discernment, knowledge’, whose relatives include Dutch geschil ‘difference’, and which goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *skel- ‘pide, separate’ (source also of English scale, shell, shield, etc). The modern English sense emerged in the 13th century.
=> scale, shell, shield
skill (n.): late 12c., "power of discernment," from Old Norse skil "distinction, ability to make out, discernment, adjustment," related to skilja (v.) "to separate; discern, understand," from Proto-Germanic *skaljo- "pide, separate" (cognates: Swedish skäl "reason," Danish skjel "a separation, boundary, limit," Middle Low German schillen "to differ," Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schele "separation, discrimination;" see shell (n.)). Sense of "ability, cleverness" first recorded early 13c.

skill从词源上讲,不是指体力上的技能,而是脑力上的技能,借用于古斯堪的纳维亚语skil(优秀,精明,学问);而skil来源于史前日耳曼语skal-, skel-(分开,也是英语scale, shell和shield等的词源);skill的现代意义出现于13世纪。

同源词：scale, shell, shield

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：skill 词源，skill 含义。

来自中古英语 skill,知识，来自古诺斯语 skil,区分，鉴别，知识，来自 Proto-Germanic*skilja, 分开，来自 PIE*skel,砍，劈，来自 PIE*skei,砍，劈，词源同 ski,science.引申词义技术，技能，技巧等。