because的词源

英文词源

because: because: [14] Because originated in the phrase by cause, which was directly modelled on French par cause. At first it was always followed by of or by a subordinate clause introduced by that or why: ‘The Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified’, St John’s Gospel, 7:39, 1611. But already by the end of the 14th century that and why were beginning to be omitted, leaving because to function as a conjunction, a move which would perhaps have exercised contemporary linguistic purists as much as ‘The reason is because …’ does today. The abbreviated form ’cause first appears in print in the 16th century.
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because (conj.): c. 1300, bi cause "by cause," modeled on French par cause. Originally a phrase, often followed by a subordinate clause introduced by that or why. One word from c. 1400. As an adverb from late 14c. Clipped form cause attested in writing by mid-15c.

前缀be-, 强调。cause, 原因。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：because 词源，because 含义。

来源于法语中的par cause或英语中的by cause;最初在句子中后跟介词of或由that(或why)引导的从句;到14世纪末,that(或why)即已开始被忽略。