yesterday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.

yesterday (n., adv.)

Old English geostran dæg; see yester- + day.

中文词源

yesterday：昨天

yester-，昨日，以前，day,天。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：yesterday 词源，yesterday 含义。

yesterday：昨天

该词来自古英语giestran/geostran 'yesterday' + daeg 'day' 。giestran/geostran 原来就指“昨天”，以后逐渐演变为yester,并且只用作组合语素，表示“昨”、“上”、“去”等，构成yestereve /yesterevening （昨晚），yestermorn / yestermorning （昨天早晨），yesternight （昨夜），yesternoon（昨天正午），yesterweek（上周），yesteryear（去年）等词。这些词现在已经都废弃不用了。因此，看来day加到yester 上还是符合逻辑的，尽管 yester 本身原就包含“昨天”之意。

yesterday：昨天

yester-,昨日，以前，day,天。