bulk的词源

英文词源

bulk: bulk: [14] Formally, bulk comes from Old Norse búlki, which meant ‘cargo’ or ‘heap’: the original connotation of the English word in this sense was thus of goods loaded loose, in heaps, rather than neatly packed up. That is the source of the phrase in bulk. However, a certain similarity in form and meaning to the English word bouk ‘belly’ (from Old English būc, and ultimately a descendant of West and North Germanic *būkaz) led to the two being confused, so that bulk was used for ‘belly’, or more generally ‘body’.

Modern connotations of ‘great size’ seem to be a blend of these two. The bulk of bulkhead [15] is a different word; it may come from Old Norse bálkr ‘partition’.
bulk (n.): mid-15c., "a heap," earlier "ship's cargo" (mid-14c.), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse bulki "a heap; ship's cargo," thus "goods loaded loose" (perhaps literally "rolled-up load"), from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).

Meaning extended by confusion with obsolete bouk "belly" (from Old English buc "body, belly," from Proto-Germanic *bukaz; see bucket), which led to sense of "size," first attested mid-15c.
bulk (v.): "swell, become more massive," 1550s (usually with up), from bulk (n.). Related: Bulked; bulking.

发音释义：[bʌlk] n. 大块，大量，庞大身躯；散装货物；体积，容量；主体，大部分adj.大量的；大批的；散装的v.堆放；形成大块；形成一堆

词源解释：bulk ←古挪威语bulki（一堆；散装货物）←原始印欧词根bhel（膨胀）。该词原本表示散装的大堆货物，后来用来表示任何的“一大堆”

词组习语：bulk up（增加、累积）；bulk pack（散装）；in bulk（以大宗散装方式）；bulk purchase（大宗采购）；bulk cargo（散装货物）

衍生词：bulky（庞大的、笨重的）

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