yester的词源
英文词源
- yesterday
- yesterday: [OE] The yester- of yesterday (and of yesteryear [19], coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) was originally a free-standing word, meaning ‘yesterday’, but by the time records of it in Old English begin it was already locked into a collocation with day. Its ultimate source is Indo-European *ghes, which also produced Latin herī (source of French hier, Italian and Romanian ieri, and Spanish ayer), Welsh doe, German gestern, and Dutch gisteren.
- polyester (n.)
- 1929, formed from polymer + ester. Polyester fiber was discovered 1941.
- yester-
- Old English geostran "yesterday," from Proto-Germanic *gester- (cognates: Old High German gestaron, German gestern "yesterday," Old Norse gær "tomorrow, yesterday," Gothic gistradagis "tomorrow"), originally "the other day" (reckoned from "today," either backward or forward), from PIE root *dhgh(y)es- "yesterday" (cognates: Sanskrit hyah, Avestan zyo, Persian di, Greek khthes, Latin heri, Old Irish indhe, Welsh doe "yesterday;" Latin hesternus "of yesterday").
- yesterday (n., adv.)
- Old English geostran dæg; see yester- + day.
- yesternight (n., adv.)
- Old English gystran niht; see yester- + night.
- yesteryear (n.)
- coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester- + year to translate French antan (from Vulgar Latin *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
中文词源
来自Proto-Germanic*gester,另外一天，昨天，今天，来自PIE*dhghyes,今天，词源同day,-ter,比较级后缀，词源同alternate,interior。即相比于今天而言的昨天或明天，后词义固定为昨日，以前。词义演变比较whether.
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来自中古英语yester-,昨日，以前，来自古英语geostran,昨天，来自Proto-Germanic*gester-, 昨天，-ter,表施动名词，来自PIE*dhghyes-,昨天，明天，字面意思为今天的另外一天，来自 PIE*dhegwh,白天，今天，词源同day,+PIE*yes,比较级后缀，现后缀-er 的原型。
来自中古英语 yester-,昨日，以前，来自古英语 geostran,昨天，来自 Proto-Germanic*gester-, 昨天，-ter,表施动名词，来自 PIE*dhghyes-,昨天，明天，字面意思为今天的另外一天，来自 PIE*dhegwh,白天，今天，词源同 day,+PIE*yes,比较级后缀，现后缀-er 的原型。
