tow的词源

英文词源

tow

tow: English has two words tow. The older, ‘pull’ [OE], came from a prehistoric Germanic *togōjan (source also of Norwegian toga ‘pull’). This was derived from the base *tog-, variants of which gave English team, tug, etc, and it goes back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as produced Latin dūcere ‘pull, lead’ (source of English conduct, duke, etc). Tow ‘flax or hemp fibre’ [14] was borrowed from Middle Low German touw.

This probably went back to the prehistoric Germanic base *tōw-, *taw- ‘make, prepare’ (source also of English tool), in the specialized sense ‘make yarn from wool, spin’.
=> conduct, duct, duke, educate, team, teem, tie, tug; tool

tow (v.)

"pull with a rope," Old English togian "to drag, pull," from Proto-Germanic *tugojanan (cognates: Old English teon "to draw," Old Frisian togia "to pull about," Old Norse toga, Old High German zogon, German ziehen "to draw, pull, drag"), from PIE root *deuk- "to pull, draw" (cognates: Latin ducere "to lead;" see duke (n.)). Related: Towed; towing.

tow (n.1)

"the coarse, broken fibers of flax, hemp, etc., separated from the finer parts," late 14c., probably from Old English tow- "spinning" (in towlic "fit for spinning," tow-hus "spinning-room"), perhaps cognate with Gothic taujan "to do, make," Middle Dutch touwen "to knit, weave," from Proto-Germanic *taw- "to manufacture" (see taw (v.)).

tow (n.2)

c. 1600, "rope used in towing," from tow (v.). Meaning "act or fact of being towed" is from 1620s.

中文词源

tow：拖，拉，牵引

来自古英语 togian,拖，拉，来自 Proto-Germanic*tugojanan,拖，拉，来自 PIE*deuk,拖，拉， 词源同 duct,tie.引申诸相关词义。

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tow：拖，拉，牵引

来自古英语 togian,拖，拉，来自 Proto-Germanic*tugojanan,拖，拉，来自 PIE*deuk,拖，拉， 词源同 duct,tie.引申诸相关词义。