breath的词源

英文词源

breath

breath: [OE] Breath comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (source also of braise, breed, brood, and probably brawn), and in its original Indo-European form *bhrētos appears to have meant something like the ‘steam, vapour, etc given off by something burning or cooking’. When it reached Old English, via Germanic *brǣthaz, it still meant ‘smell’ or ‘exhalation’, and it was not in fact until as late as the 14th century that this notion of ‘exhalation’ came to be applied to human or animal respiration (the main Old English word for ‘breath’ had been ǣthm, which German still has in the form atem).

The verb breathe is 13thcentury.
=> braise, brawn, breed, brood

breath (n.)

Old English bræð "odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor" (Old English word for "air exhaled from the lungs" was æðm), from Proto-Germanic *bræthaz "smell, exhalation" (cognates: Old High German bradam, German Brodem "breath, steam"), from PIE root *gwhre- "to breathe, smell."

中文词源

breath：呼吸

来自PIE *gwhre, 呼吸。

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breath：呼吸，气息；轻微流动

来源于古印欧语中"烧,加热(bhre)”及其产生的"蒸汽(bhretos)”,英语中braise(炖,煮),breed(繁殖)和brood(一窝)也源于此意。在古英语中braethaz指"排气,气味",直到14世纪才用于指人或动物的"呼吸"。

同源词：braise, breed, brood, breathe词组/短语：out of breath 喘不过起来,上气不接下气catch one’s breath 屏住呼吸