beacon的词源

英文词源

beacon: beacon: [OE] In Old English, bēacen meant simply ‘sign’; it did not develop its modern senses ‘signal fire’ and ‘lighthouse’ until the 14th century. Its source is West Germanic *baukna, from which English also gets beckon [OE].
=> beckon
beacon (n.): Old English beacen "sign, portent, lighthouse," from West Germanic *baukna "beacon, signal" (cognates: Old Frisian baken, Old Saxon bokan, Old High German bouhhan); not found outside Germanic. Perhaps borrowed from Latin bucina "a crooked horn or trumpet, signal horn." But more likely from PIE *bhew-, a variant of the base *bha- (1) "to gleam, shine" (see phantasm). Figurative use from c. 1600.

发音释义：['biːk(ə)n] n. 灯塔，信号浮标；烽火；指路明灯vt. 照亮，指引vi. 像灯塔般照耀

词源解释：beacon ← 古英语beacen（灯塔）←原始印欧语bhew（闪光、照射）

助记窍门：beacon→谐音“避坑”→在灯光指引下避开前方的坑→灯光→灯塔

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来自PIE *bha, 发光，照耀，词源同fantasy, 幻想物。