buoy的词源
英文词源
- buoy
- buoy: [13] Buoy is of disputed origin, as to both its immediate source and its ultimate derivation. One school of thought holds that English borrowed it directly from Old French boie ‘chain’, while another views Middle Dutch boeye as an intermediate stage. Again some etymologists maintain that its beginnings were amongst the Germanic languages, and have connected it with English beacon, while others would trace it via Latin boia ‘strap’ to Greek boeiai ‘ox-leather straps’, a derivative of bous ‘ox’ (which is related to English cow).
The meaning of Old French boie favours the latter explanation, the semantic link being that buoys are held in place by chains. Buoyant [16] comes from Spanish boyante, the present participle of boyar ‘float’, which was derived from boya ‘buoy’, a borrowing from Old French boie.
- buoy (n.)
- late 13c., perhaps from either Old French buie or Middle Dutch boeye, both from West Germanic *baukna "beacon, signal" (see beacon). OED, however, supports Middle Dutch boeie, or Old French boie "fetter, chain" (see boy), "because of its being fettered to a spot."
- buoy (v.)
- late 16c., "to mark with a buoy," from buoy (n.). Meaning "rise up, lift, sustain" is from c. 1600, perhaps influenced by Spanish boyar "to float," ultimately from the same source. In the figurative sense (of hopes, spirits, etc.) it is recorded from 1640s. Related: Buoyed; buoying.
中文词源
发音释义:[bɒɪ] n.浮标;浮筒;救生圈;航标vt.使浮起;使振作起来
词源解释:来自古法语buie或中古荷兰语boeye,二者都来自西日耳曼语baukna(浮标、信号)
词组习语:life buoy(救生圈);station buoy(标位浮标);can buoy(浮筒);buoy up(使浮起、使振作起来)
助记窍门:buoy→buy(买) + o(救生圈)→买个救生圈,就能浮起来→使浮起、浮标
衍生词:buoyant(有浮力的,活泼的);buoyancy(浮力,轻快的心情)
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:buoy 词源,buoy 含义。
词源同beacon, 灯塔。来自PIE *bha, 照明,闪光。