forgive
中文来自 ECDICT
- vt.
- 原谅，宽恕，免除
构词拆分
for-前缀
(no longer productive) Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'. · (no longer productive) Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting oneself.
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give词根/词干
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 foryiven
- 继承自 ←古英语 forġiefan “to forgive, to give”
- 继承自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *frageban
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *fragebaną “to give away; give up; release; forgive”
原始词根
原始印欧语 *gʰebʰ-
词源说明
Alteration (due to give) of Middle English foryiven, forȝiven, from Old English forġiefan (“to forgive, to give”), from Proto-West Germanic *frageban, from Proto-Germanic *fragebaną (“to give away; give up; release; forgive”), equivalent to for- + give (etymologically for- + yive). Cognate with Scots forgeve, forgif, forgie (“to forgive”), West Frisian ferjaan (“to forgive”), Dutch vergeven (“to forgive”), German vergeben (“to forgive”), Icelandic fyrirgefa (“to forgive”), Yiddish פֿאַרגעבן (fargebn, “to forgive”)
释义（英文）
动词 Verb
- (transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
- (transitive) To pardon (something); to waive any negative