blush的词源

英文词源

blush: blush: [OE] Modern English blush is a descendant of Old English blyscan ‘turn red, blush’, which was related to and perhaps derived from Old English blysa ‘firebrand, torch’. Similarities of form and meaning make it tempting to compare blaze, which meant ‘torch’ in Old English and came from a prehistoric Germanic *blasōn, but no connection has ever been established. Middle Dutch blosen ‘glow’ may be an intermediate form.
blush (v.): mid-14c., bluschen, blischen, probably from Old English blyscan "blush, become red, glow" (glossing Latin rutilare), akin to blyse "torch," from Proto-Germanic *blisk- "to shine, burn," which also yielded words in Low German (Dutch blozen "to blush") and Scandinavian (Danish blusse "to blaze; to blush"); ultimately from PIE *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).

For vowel evolution, see bury. Earliest recorded senses were "to shine brightly; to look, stare." Sense of "turn red in the face" (with shame, modesty, etc.) is from c. 1400. Related: Blushed; blushing.
blush (n.): mid-14c., "a look, a glance" (sense preserved in at first blush), also "a gleam, a gleaming" (late 14c.), from blush (v.). As "a reddening of the face" from 1590s. Meaning "a rosy color" is 1590s.

发音释义：[blʌʃ] vi.脸红；感到羞愧n.脸红；羞愧；（古语）一瞥

词源解释：blush←古英语blyscan（脸红、变红、发光）←古日耳曼语blisk（照耀、燃烧）

词组习语：at first blush（第一眼）；spare (或 save) someone's blushes（避免使某人尴尬，照顾某人脸面）

助记窍门：blush→谐音“不拉屎”→憋的脸通红→脸红。或blush→flush（冲洗、脸红）

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