knot
中文n. 结，群，难题；v. 打结，(使)纠缠来自 ECDICT
词源 1
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
(unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the logline (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1⁄120 of a mile.
释义（英文）
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
词族
词源 2
词源说明
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.