aisle的词源
英文词源
- aisle
- aisle: [15] The original English form of this word was ele. It was borrowed from Old French, which in turn took it from Latin āla ‘wing’ (the modern French form of the word, aile, has a diminutive form, aileron ‘movable control surface on an aircraft’s wing’ [20], which has been acquired by English). Besides meaning literally ‘bird’s wing’, āla was used metaphorically for ‘wing of a building’, which was the source of its original meaning in English, the ‘sides of the nave of a church’.
The Latin word comes from an unrecorded *acsla, which is one of a complex web of ‘turning’ words that include Latin axis, Greek axon ‘axis’, Latin axilla ‘armpit’ (whence English axillary and axil), and English axle. The notion of an aisle as a detached, separate part of a building led to an association with isle and island which eventually affected Middle English ele’s spelling.
From the 16th to the 18th century the word was usually spelled ile or isle. A further complication entered the picture in the 18th century in the form of French aile, which took the spelling on to today’s settled form, aisle.
=> aileron, axis - aisle (n.)
- late 14c., ele, "lateral pision of a church (usually separated by a row of pillars), from Old French ele "wing (of a bird or an army), side of a ship" (12c., Modern French aile), from Latin ala, related to axilla "wing, upper arm, armpit; wing of an army," from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis), via a suffixed form *aks-la-. The root meaning in "turning" connects it with axle and axis.
Confused from 15c. with unrelated ile "island" (perhaps from notion of a "detached" part of a church), and so it took an -s- when isle did, c. 1700; by 1750 it had acquired an a-, on the model of French cognate aile. The word also was confused with alley, which gave it the sense of "passage between rows of pews or seats" (1731), which was thence extended to railway cars, theaters, etc.
中文词源
来自词根ala-, 翼，借指走廊，过道等。拼写受单词isle影响，最终拼写俗化为aisle.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：aisle 词源，aisle 含义。
该词源自拉丁语ala，法语aile，这两者都意指“侧楼”、“侧厅”或“（教堂的）侧廊”。在词形上由于受了英语词isle（岛）的影响，aisle带上了不发音的字母s；在词义上则由于受了英语alley（原指教堂座席同通道）的影响，除了指“（教堂的）侧廊”，以后更多用以指“（教堂、礼堂、课堂、剧院等的）座席间的纵直通道”，“走道”。因此有人认为这是一个被误用了的词。
aisle：(教堂，戏院，汽车等的)通道，走廊
来源于拉丁语名词ala, alae, f(侧翼)
