英語單詞

water是什么意思

water

英 ['w??t?] 美 ['w?t?]
  • n. 水;海水;雨水;海域,大片的水
  • vt. 使濕;供以水;給…澆水
  • vi. 加水;流淚
  • n. (Water)人名;(英)沃特

中文詞源


water 水

來自PIE*wed,水,濕的,詞源同wet,undulate,otter.該詞通常被語言學家認為是無生命的水,而PIE*ap則是有生命的水,詞源同aquatic,Punjab.參照fire,ignite.

英文詞源


water
water: [OE] Water is an ancient and widespread word, which goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *wodōr. Its relatives include Greek húdōr ‘water’ (source of the English prefix hydro-), Latin unda ‘wave’ (source of English redundant, surround, undulate, etc), Russian voda ‘water’ (source of English vodka), Gaelic uisge ‘water’ (source of English whisky), Lithuanian vanduō ‘water’, Latvian ūdens ‘water’, Sanskrit udán ‘water’, and Hittite watar ‘water’.

In the Germanic languages it has become German wasser (source of English vaseline), Dutch and English water, Swedish vatten, and Danish vand. Otter comes from a variant of the same Indo-European base, as may winter, and wet is closely related.

=> abound, hydro-, otter, redundant, surround, undulate, vaseline, vodka, wet, whisky
water (n.1)
Old English w?ter, from Proto-Germanic *watar (cognates: Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, Old Norse vatn, Gothic wato "water"), from PIE *wod-or, from root *wed- (1) "water, wet" (cognates: Hittite watar, Sanskrit udrah, Greek hydor, Old Church Slavonic and Russian voda, Lithuanian vanduo, Old Prussian wundan, Gaelic uisge "water;" Latin unda "wave").

To keep (one's) head above water in the figurative sense is recorded from 1742. Water cooler is recorded from 1846; water polo from 1884; water torture from 1928. Linguists believe PIE had two root words for water: *ap- and *wed-. The first (preserved in Sanskrit apah as well as Punjab and julep) was "animate," referring to water as a living force; the latter referred to it as an inanimate substance. The same probably was true of fire (n.).
water (v.)
Old English w?terian "moisten, irrigate, supply water to; lead (cattle) to water;" from water (n.1). Meaning "to dilute" is attested from late 14c.; now usually as water down (1850). To make water "urinate" is recorded from early 15c. Related: Watered; watering.
water (n.2)
measure of quality of a diamond, c. 1600, from water (n.1), perhaps as a translation of Arabic ma' "water," which also is used in the sense "lustre, splendor."

雙語例句


1. Nora was deflowered by a man who worked in a soda-water factory.
在汽水廠工作的一個男子奪去了諾拉的童貞。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Wash your hands thoroughly with hot soapy water before handling any food.
在拿吃的之前,用熱肥皂水把手好好地洗干凈。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Put a pan of salted water on to boil.
將一鍋鹽水放上去煮。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Water in the engine compartment is sucked away by a hose.
發動機艙里的水由一條軟管抽走。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Basal metabolism is much lower for creatures in cold water.
冷水中生物的基礎代謝速度要低很多。

來自柯林斯例句

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