among的词源
英文词源
- among
- among: [OE] Gemong was an Old English word for ‘crowd’ – ge- was a collective prefix, signifying ‘together’, and -mong is related to mingle – and so the phrase on gemonge meant ‘in a crowd’, hence ‘in the midst, surrounded’. By the 12th century, the ge- element had dropped out, giving onmong and eventually among. A parallel bimong existed in the 13th century.
=> mingle - among (prep.)
- early 12c., from Old English onmang, from phrase on gemang "in a crowd," from gemengan "to mingle" (see mingle). Collective prefix ge- dropped 12c. leaving onmong, amang, among. Compare Old Saxon angimang "among, amid;" Old Frisian mong "among."
中文词源
来自短语on mong. 词根mong, 中间，同mingle, 混在一起。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：among 词源，among 含义。
among源于古英语on‘in’和gemang‘crowd’。以后短语on gemang缩合为一个词onmang‘in a crowd’（在一群之中），onmang最后又演变为among，而词义却沿用至今。
在古英语中是gemong(人群),ge-(共同)是选择性前缀,-mong和mingle(混合)有派生关系,因此on gemong是“在人群中”,引申为“在中间、被环绕”的意思；到12世纪,前缀ge-消失,on gemong成为onmong,并最终变为among。
同源词：mingle词义辨异：between和amongbetween用于两者之间,而among用于二者以上。当实体被看作不同的个体时用between,当被看作整体或集合时用among。
