border的词源

英文词源

border: border: [14] English acquired border from Old French bordure. This came from the common Romance verb *bordāre ‘border’, which was based on *bordus ‘edge’, a word of Germanic origin whose source, *borthaz, was the same as that of English board in the sense ‘side of a ship’.
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border (n.): mid-14c., from Old French bordure "seam, edge of a shield, border," from Frankish *bord or a similar Germanic source (compare Old English bord "side;" see board (n.2)). The geopolitical sense first attested 1530s, in Scottish (replacing earlier march), from The Borders, name of the district adjoining the boundary between England and Scotland.
border (v.): c. 1400, "to put a border on;" 1640s as "to lie on the border of," from border (n.). Related: Bordered; bordering.

来自PIE *bherdh , 切，砍。指分开的。词源同board, break.

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

来源于日耳曼语borthaz,因此和board作"船舷"的意义时同源,经由罗曼语bordare(边界)和古法语bordure(边界)进入英语。