wand的词源
英文词源
- wand
- wand: [12] A wand is etymologically a ‘bendable’ stick. The word was borrowed from Old Norse vöndr ‘thin straight stick’. This in turn went back to a prehistoric Germanic *wanduz, which was derived from *wand-, *wend- ‘turn’ (source also of English wander, went, etc). A stick that can be ‘turned’ is one that can be ‘bent’, hence a ‘flexible stick’. The earliest record of the word’s use for a ‘stick with magic powers’ comes from the 15th century.
=> wander, went - wand (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old Norse vondr "rod, switch" (cognate with Gothic wandus "rod," Middle Swedish vander), from Proto-Germanic *wend- "to turn," see wind (v.)). The notion is of a bending, flexible stick. Compare cognate Old Norse veggr, Old English wag "wall," Old Saxon, Dutch wand, Old High German want, German Wand "wall," originally "wickerwork for making walls," or "wall made of wattle-work" (an insight into early Germanic domestic architecture). Magic wand is attested from c. 1400 and shows the etymological sense of "suppleness" already had been lost.
中文词源
来自PIE*wendh,弯，转，缠绕，词源同vine,wind。原指弯曲的有弹性的木杖，后指魔杖。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：wand 词源，wand 含义。
词源上，它的本义是“可以弯曲的，有弹性的棍子”，所以它的同源词围绕着“弯曲”这一根义展开，举例：wind（缠绕；上发条），wander（漫步，漫步是随性的行为，路线是弯曲的，若有急事，路线一定是直的），go的过去式went也是它的同源词。
来自 PIE*wendh,弯，转，缠绕，词源同 vine,wind.原指弯曲的有弹性的木杖，后指魔杖。
