sneak的词源

英文词源

sneak (v.): 1550s (implied in sneakish), perhaps from some dialectal survival of Middle English sniken "to creep, crawl" (c. 1200), related to Old English snican "to sneak along, creep, crawl," from Proto-Germanic *sneikanan, which is related to the root of snake (n.). Of feelings, suspicions, etc., from 1748. Transitive sense, "to partake of surreptitiously" is from 1883. Related: Sneaking. Sneak-thief first recorded 1859; sneak-preview is from 1938.
sneak (n.): "a sneaking person; mean, contemptible fellow," 1640s, from sneak (v.).

可能来自中古英语 sniken,爬，蜷缩，来自 Proto-Germanic*snikana,爬，来自 PIE*sneg,爬，词源同 snail,snake.引申词义偷偷地走，溜走。

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