craft的词源
英文词源
- craft
- craft: [OE] The original notion contained in the word craft is that of ‘strength’ (that is the meaning of its relatives in other Germanic languages, such as German and Swedish kraft). Old English croeft had that sense too (it had largely died out by the 16th century), but it had also developed some other meanings, which are not shared by its Germanic cognates: ‘skill’, for example (in a bad as well as a good sense, whence crafty) and ‘trade’ or ‘profession’.
Much later in origin, however (17th-century in fact), is the sense ‘ship’. It is not clear how this developed, but it may have been a shortening of some such expression as ‘vessel of the sailor’s craft’ (that is, ‘trade’). The word’s Germanic stem was *krab- or *kraf-, which some have seen also as the source of crave [OE].
=> crave - craft (n.)
- Old English cræft (West Saxon, Northumbrian), -creft (Kentish), originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cognates: Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, dexterity; art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led by late Old English to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling," also "something built or made." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English.
Use for "small boat" is first recorded 1670s, probably from a phrase similar to vessels of small craft and referring either to the trade they did or the seamanship they required, or perhaps it preserves the word in its original sense of "power." - craft (v.)
- Old English cræftan "to exercise a craft, build," from the same source as craft (n.). Meaning "to make skilfully" is from early 15c., obsolete from 16c., but revived c. 1950s, largely in U.S. advertising and commercial senses. Related: Crafted; crafting.
中文词源
原义为力量，强健，词源同hard, democracy. 现词义主要为工艺，技术，来自PIE*sker, 弯，转，编织，词源同cradle, crib. 比较texture, technology.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：craft 词源，craft 含义。
craft在日耳曼语中最初的意义是"力量",这个意义在德语kraft和瑞典语kraft中至今仍保留;古英语craft也有这个初始意义,但后续还出现了其它意义,如"技巧","贸易","职业"等,"船"的意义出现在较晚的17世纪,可能来自"vessel of the sailor’s craft (水手贸易船)"的缩写。
