auger的词源

英文词源

auger (n.)

c. 1500, faulty separation of Middle English a nauger, from Old English nafogar "nave drill," from Proto-Germanic *nabo-gaizaz (cognates: Old Norse nafarr, Old Saxon nabuger, Old High German nabuger), a compound whose first element is related to nave (n.2) and whose second is identical to Old English gar "a spear, borer" (see gar). For similar mispisions, see adder. The same change took place in Dutch (avegaar).

中文词源

auger：螺旋钻

来自古英语a nauger 错分成an auger. auger, 词源同gar, 矛，见garlic, 大蒜（蒜瓣如矛）。

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