wench的词源

英文词源

wench (n.)

late 13c., wenche "girl, young woman," especially if unmarried, also "female infant," shortened from wenchel "child," also in Middle English "girl, maiden," from Old English wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," from Proto-Germanic *wankila- (cognates: Old Norse vakr "child, weak person," Old High German wanchal "fickle"), from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).

The wenche is nat dead, but slepith. [Wyclif, Matt. ix:24, c. 1380]

In Middle English occasionally with disparaging suggestion, and secondary sense of "concubine, strumpet" is attested by mid-14c. Also "serving-maid, bondwoman, young woman of a humble class" (late 14c.), a sense retained in the 19c. U.S. South in reference to slave women of any age. In Shakespeare's day a female flax-worker could be a flax-wench, flax-wife, or flax-woman.

wench (v.)

"to associate with common women," 1590s, from wench (n.). Related: Wenched; wencher; wenching.

中文词源

wench：少妇，少女

来自PIE*weng,弯，转，柔弱，词源同weak,vetch。通常含贬义。

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wench：少妇，少女

来自 PIE*weng,弯，转，柔弱，词源同 weak,vetch.通常含贬义。