bough
/ˈbaʊ̯/
- n.
- 大树枝
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 中古英语Middle English约 1150–1500 年
bough‘branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring’
继承
- 英语English
bough
词源说明
From Middle English bough (“branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring”) [and other forms], from Old English bōg, bōh (“tree bough or branch; arm; shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“shoulder; upper arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”).
The [x] sound was lost in pronunciation of this word before it was lost in other words, but it was later re-added to the spelling to distinguish the word from bow.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bouch, West Frisian boech, Dutch boeg, German Low German Boog, German Bug, Danish bov, Icelandic bógur, and distantly with Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pêkhus, “forearm, cubit, etc.”). Doublet of bow ("front of a ship, prow").
释义
名词noun
- 1A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.
- 2obsolete, figuratively, poeticA gallows.