shirt的词源
英文词源
- shirt
- shirt: [OE] A shirt, like a skirt, is etymologically a ‘short’ garment, one that stops at or just below the waist rather than reaching down to the knees or beyond. In common with Swedish skjorta and Danish skjorte, it comes from the prehistoric base *skurt-, source of English short. Shirty ‘angry’ [19] was inspired by the now defunct expression get one’s shirt out ‘lose one’s temper’ (the opposite keep one’s shirt on ‘remain calm’ survives).
=> share, shear, short, skirt - shirt (n.)
- Old English scyrte "skirt, tunic," from Proto-Germanic *skurtjon "a short garment" (cognates: Old Norse skyrta, Swedish skjorta "skirt, kirtle;" Middle Dutch scorte, Dutch schort "apron;" Middle High German schurz, German Schurz "apron"), related to Old English scort, sceort "short," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Formerly of the chief garment worn by both sexes, but in modern use long only of that for men; in reference to women's tops, reintroduced 1896. Bloody shirt, exposed as a symbol of outrage, is attested from 1580s. To give (someone) the shirt off one's back is from 1771. To lose one's shirt "suffer total financial loss" is from 1935. To keep one's shirt on "be patient" (1904) is from the notion of (not) stripping down for a fight.
中文词源
在当代英语中shirt与skirt是意思迥异的两个词，尽管它们仅有一个字母之差。但着追根朔源，我们就会发现，它们的原义几乎相同。shirt来自古英语scyrte，而skirt则来自古代斯堪的纳维亚语skyrta。不论scyrte还是skyrta原先都指“衬衣”。这不奇怪，因为其终极词源都是原始印欧词根sker‘to cut’（剪）。后来，本族词shirt 一直保留原义“衬衣”，而外来词skirt则被赋予另一词义：“裙子”。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：shirt 词源，shirt 含义。
来自古英语 scyrte,衬衣，短袍，来自 Proto-Germanic*skurtjon,短衫，来自 PIE*sker,切，分开， 词源同 shear,skirt,short.
