tyre的词源
英文词源
- tyre
- tyre: [15] The word tyre was originally used for a protective covering of metal plates put round the rim of a wooden wheel. It is thought that it was short for attire [13] (a borrowing from Old French, but ultimately of unknown origin), the notion being of ‘attiring’ the wheels in their covering. At first the word was spelled tire or tyre indiscriminately. By the 18th century tire had become the standard form, and it remains so in American English, but when rubber wheel cushions were introduced in the 19th century, British English took to spelling them tyre.
=> attire - tyre (n.)
- variant spelling of tire (n.), chiefly British English.
中文词源
来源于中古英语。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：tyre 词源，tyre 含义。
来自 tire 拼写变体。
来自 tire 拼写变体。
