kite
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 风筝，筝帆，空头支票，骗子
- vi.
- 象风筝一样飞，轻快地移动，使用空头支票
- vt.
- 使上升，骗钱
1词源 1
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *kūt (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment
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3词源 3
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 借自 ←cop ⲕⲓⲧⲉ
- 源自 ←egx-dem qt
- 源自 ←古埃及语 qdt
词源说明
Borrowed from Coptic ⲕⲓⲧⲉ (kite), from Demotic Egyptian qt, from Egyptian qdt.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight