sale的词源
英文词源
- sale
- sale: [11] Sale was borrowed from Old Norse sala. This came from the same prehistoric Germanic base, *sal-, that produced English sell. The word’s specific application to the ‘selling of goods at lower-than-normal prices’ did not emerge until the 1860s.
=> sell - sale (n.)
- late Old English sala "a sale, act of selling," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse sala "sale," from Proto-Germanic *salo (cognates: Old High German sala, Swedish salu, Danish salg), from PIE root *sal- (3) "to grasp, take." Sense of "a selling of shop goods at lower prices than usual" first appeared 1866. Sales tax attested by 1886. Sales associate by 1946. Sales representative is from 1910.
中文词源
sale：卖，销售；贱卖，廉价出售
来源于史前日耳曼语saljan。
同源词： sell 词组/短语： on sale 出售;折价出售
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：sale 词源，sale 含义。
来自 sell 的名词形式，比较 tale,tell.
