awl的词源

英文词源

awl: awl: [OE] The Old English form, æl, came from a hypothetical Germanic base *āl-, which had a probable relative in Sanskrit ārā. The compound bradawl was formed in the 19th century using the term brad ‘thin flat nail’, which came originally from Old Norse broddr ‘spike’. Awls, tools for making holes to take nails, are part of the shoemaker’s traditional set of implements: hence the apparently quite recent, early 20thcentury rhyming slang cobbler’s awls (cobblers for short) for ‘balls’.
awl (n.): Old English æl "awl, piercer," from Proto-Germanic *ælo (cognates: Old Norse alr, Dutch aal, Middle Low German al, Old High German äla, German Ahle), which is of uncertain origin. Earliest references are to piercing of the ears, though later it was associated with shoemakers. Through mispision, frequently written 15c.-17c. as nawl (for an awl; see N).

发音释义：[ɔːl] n. 锥子；尖钻

词源解释：awl←古英语æl（锥子）←原始日耳曼语ælo（锥子）

趣味记忆：awl→谐音wall（墙）→在墙上打洞需要锥子→锥子；awl→law（法律）→钻法律的空子→尖钻、锥子；awl的最后一个字母是l，像是一把锥子。

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