shear的词源

英文词源

shear

shear: [OE] Shear is the principal English descendant of the Indo-European base *sker- ‘cut’, which has also produced English score, share, shirt, short, and skirt, and probably sharp and shore as well. A variant of the base without the s is responsible for curt and curtail. The immediate source of shear itself is prehistoric Germanic *skeran, which also evolved into German and Dutch scheren, Swedish skära, and Danish skjære.

The verb sheer ‘swerve’ [17] probably originated as a variant of shear, but the adjective sheer [16] is an entirely different word. It probably represents a survival of Old English scīr ‘bright, shining’, which came ultimately from the Germanic base *ski-, source also of English shimmer and shine.
=> curt, curtail, score, share, sheer, shirt, short, skirt

shear (v.)

Old English sceran, scieran (class IV strong verb; past tense scear, past participle scoren) "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument; cut (hair); shear (sheep)," from Proto-Germanic *sker- "to cut" (cognates: Old Norse and Old Frisian skera, Dutch scheren, German scheren "to shear"), from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (cognates: Sanskrit krnati "hurts, wounds, kills," krntati "cuts;" Hittite karsh- "to cut off;" Greek keirein "to cut, shear;" Latin curtus "short;" Lithuanian skiriu "to separate;" Old Irish scaraim "I separate;" Welsh ysgar "to separate," ysgyr "fragment").

shear (n.)

"act of clipping," 1610s, also as a unit of measure of the age of a sheep, from shear (v.). Scientific and mechanical sense "type of strain" is from 1850.

中文词源

shear：修剪

单词share为什么指“分享”呢？因为它的本义为“切”，分享就是一块蛋糕切两份，一人一半。这样，同源词shear（剪）就好理解了，其本义是“切”，“切”和“剪”含义统一。我们同样可以在单词sharp（锋利的）中的shar-里找到“切”的身影。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：shear 词源，shear 含义。

shear：剪刀，剪，剪切，剪羊毛

来自古英语 sceran,剪下，切下，来自 Proto-Germanic*sker,剪，切，来自 PIE*sker,剪，切， 词源同 share,sharp.引申诸相关词义。