beg的词源

英文词源

beg

beg: [OE] Beg first turns up in immediately recognizable form in the 13th century, as beggen, but it seems likely that it goes back ultimately to an Old English verb bedecian ‘beg’. This came from the Germanic base *beth-, from which English also gets bid.
=> bid

beg (v.)

c. 1200, perhaps from Old English bedecian "to beg," from Proto-Germanic *beth-; or possibly from Anglo-French begger, from Old French begart (see beggar). The Old English word for "beg" was wædlian, from wædl "poverty." Of trained dogs, 1816.

As a courteous mode of asking (beg pardon, etc.), first attested c. 1600. To beg the question translates Latin petitio principii, and means "to assume something that hasn't been proven as a basis of one's argument," thus "asking" one's opponent to give something unearned, though more of the nature of taking it for granted without warrant.

中文词源

beg：乞讨

词源不确定，俗词源认为来自于bag, 背包流浪乞讨的。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：beg 词源，beg 含义。

beg：乞讨，乞求；请求，恳求 

来源于日耳曼语*beth-。

同源词：bid