anvil的词源
英文词源
- anvil
- anvil: [OE] Etymologically, an anvil is ‘something on which you hit something else’. The Old English word was anfīlte, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic compound formed from *ana ‘on’ and a verbal component meaning ‘hit’ (which was also the source of English felt, Latin pellere ‘hit’, and Swedish dialect filta ‘hit’). It is possible that the word may originally have been a loan-translation based on the Latin for ‘anvil’, incūs; for this too was a compound, based on in ‘in’ and the stem of the verb cūdere ‘hit’ (related to English hew).
=> appeal - anvil (n.)
- Old English anfilt, a Proto-Germanic compound (cognates: Middle Dutch anvilt, Old High German anafalz, Dutch aanbeeld, Danish ambolt "anvil") from *ana- "on" + *filtan "hit" (see felt (n.)). The ear bone so called from 1680s. Anvil Chorus is based on the "Gypsy Song" that opens Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," first performed in Teatro Apollo, Rome, Jan. 19, 1853.
中文词源
发音释义：['ænvɪl] n. 铁砧；[解剖] 砧骨
结构分析：anvil =an（on）+ vil（撞击）→在上面敲击的东西→铁砧
词源解析：anvil←古法语anfilt ←原始日耳曼语ana（on）+filtan（撞击）
实用知识： 上世纪80年代加拿大的一支老牌重金属乐队就叫做anvil（铁砧），被称为“金属摇滚乐的领袖”。
趣味记忆：anvil→谐音“安危”→天天被人撞击，安危得不到保障→铁砧
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：anvil 词源，anvil 含义。
an同on. -vil, 同词根pul, 击，打，见pulse, 脉膊。
anvil：砧，砧座；基准面，平台，测量头；(耳朵里的)砧骨
来源于西日耳曼语。
