delay的词源
英文词源
- delay
- delay: [13] English acquired delay from Old French delaier, a compound verb formed from the prefix de- ‘off’ and laier ‘leave’. This verb, which also crops up in English relay, appears to have been a variant of laissier (source of English lease), which came from Latin laxāre ‘slacken, undo’. This in turn was derived from the adjective laxus ‘loose’.
=> lax, lease, relay - delay (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French delaiier, from de- "away, from" (see de-) + laier "leave, let," probably a variant of Old French laissier, from Latin laxare "slacken, undo" (see lax). Related: Delayed; delaying.
- delay (n.)
- mid-13c., from Old French delaie, from delaiier (see delay (v.)).
中文词源
来自法语delaie, 来自de-, 向下，离开，-laie, 留下，停留，词源同lax, 拼写受lay影响俗化，引申义延迟。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：delay 词源，delay 含义。
来源于古法语中由de-(离开)和动词laier(离开)组成的复合词delaier。动词laier的变体laissier是英语lease的词源,来源于拉丁语laxare(放松,松弛)。
词根词缀： de-离开 + -lay(= -lax- )松弛,放松
