doom的词源

英文词源

doom

doom: [OE] Doom derives ultimately from *dō-, the Germanic base from which the verb do comes. This originally meant ‘put, place’, and so Germanic *dōmaz signified literally ‘that which is put’. By the time it reached Old English as dōm a more concrete sense ‘law, decree, judgment’ had developed (this lies behind the compound doomsday ‘day of judgment’ [OE], whose early Middle English spelling has been preserved in Domesday book). The modern sense ‘(evil) fate’ first appeared in the 14th century.
=> deem, do

doom (n.)

Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- "to set, place, put, do" (cognates: Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention;" see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c. 1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.

doom (v.)

late 14c., from doom (n.). Related: Doomed; dooming.

中文词源

doom：厄运，劫数

来自PIE*dhe, 做，放置，词源同do, deem.用于指律法，后指圣经中的Judgment Day，引申词义劫数。

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doom（末日）：上帝的末日审判　　

英语单词doom来自古英语dom，表示“判断、裁定、定罪”，同源单词有deem（认为、相信）。同源的还有后缀-dom，表示某种评价或裁定，如wisdom（明智）、freedom（自由）。基督教进入英国后，英国人就用doom表示基督教中上帝的“末日审判”。因此该词衍生出“厄运、末日、命中注定的悲惨结局”等含义。

　　doom：[duːm] n. 厄运，世界末日，命中注定的悲惨结局；判决vt.判决，注定，使失败