bucket的词源

英文词源

bucket

bucket: [13] We first encounter bucket in the Anglo-Norman forms buket and buquet. It is not entirely clear where this came from, but it may be a derivative of Old English būc. The primary underlying sense of this was ‘something bulging or swelling’, and hence it meant not only ‘jug’ but also ‘belly’ (related are German bauch and Swedish buk ‘paunch’). It survived dialectally into modern English as bowk, meaning ‘milkpail’ and ‘large tub used in coal mines’. The bucket of ‘kick the bucket’ was originally a beam from from which slaughtered animals were hung; it is probably a separate word, from Old French buquet ‘balance’.

bucket (n.)

mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from Frankish or some other Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh- (cognates: Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), possibly from a variant of PIE root *beu-, *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see bull (n.2)).

Kick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley").

中文词源

bucket：桶

发音释义：['bʌkɪt] n. 桶，水桶；铲斗；一桶的量；大量vt.用桶装运；倾盆而下

词源解释：来自古法语buquet（桶），后者来自法兰克语或其他日耳曼语来源，也可能是古英语buc（大水罐、腹部）的指小形式。

词组习语：kick the bucket（一命呜呼），源于自杀时站在倒置的水桶上上吊，然后踢开水桶。bucket list（遗愿清单），其中的bucket来自kick the bucket，表示死亡。a drop in the bucket（沧海一粟）。buckets of（大量）；cry buckets（哭得稀里哗啦）

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bucket：桶

来自PIE *bheu, 膨胀，鼓起来。词源同boast.