bottom
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 底部
- adj.
- 底部的
- vt.
- 给...装底，查明真相
- vi.
- 到达底部，建立基础
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 botme
- 继承自 ←中古英语 botme,botom
- 继承自 ←古英语 botm,bodan “bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”
- 源自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *butm
- 源自 ←原始日耳曼语 *butmaz “bottom; ground”
- 继承自 ←原始印欧语 *bʰudʰmḗn “bottom”
词源说明
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”).
The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882.