ail的词源

英文词源

ail

ail: [OE] Now virtually obsolete except in the metaphorical use of its present participial adjective ailing, ail is of long but uncertain history. The Old English verb egl(i)an came from the adjective egle ‘troublesome’, which had related forms in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Low German egelen ‘annoy’ and Gothic agls ‘disgraceful’, aglo ‘oppression’. The derivative ailment did not appear until as late as the 18th century.

ail (v.)

c. 1300, from Old English eglan "to trouble, plague, afflict," from Proto-Germanic *azljaz (cognates: Old English egle "hideous, loathsome, troublesome, painful;" Gothic agls "shameful, disgraceful," agliþa "distress, affliction, hardship," us-agljan "to oppress, afflict"), from PIE *agh-lo-, suffixed form of root *agh- (1) "to be depressed, be afraid." Related: Ailed; ailing; ails.

It is remarkable, that this word is never used but with some indefinite term, or the word no thing; as What ails him? ... Thus we never say, a fever ails him. [Johnson]

中文词源

ail：生病

发音释义：[eɪl] vt. 使苦恼，使烦恼vi. 生病n. 病痛，苦恼

词源解释：ail←古英语eglan（使烦恼）

同源词：ailing（生病），ailment（小病）

趣味记忆：ail→谐音“哎呦”→病痛时的呻吟声→病痛、苦恼

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ail：生病的

来自PIE*agh, 恐惧，害怕,字母g脱落。词源同awe, 敬畏，ugly, 丑陋。由恐惧衍生出敬畏，丑陋，忧患，病痛等。