Analyse is better than analyze, but merely as being the one of the two equally indefensible forms that has won. The correct but now impossible form would be analysize (or analysise), with analysist for existing analyst. [Fowler]
前缀ana-, 向上，向后。词根lys, 松开，同lose, loose. 即松开进行分析。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：analyse 词源，analyse 含义。
词根词缀： analy(sis) + -yse(重复的y去掉)动词词尾