lend
中文来自 ECDICT
- vt.
- 借，贷款给，增添，提供，出租
- vi.
- 贷款
1词源 1
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 lenen
- 继承自 ←古英语 lǣnan “to lend; give, grant, lease”
- 继承自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *laihnijan
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *laihnijaną “to loan”
- 源自 ←原始日耳曼语 *laihną “loan”
- 源自 ←原始印欧语 *leykʷ- “to leave, leave over”
词源说明
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).
Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
释义（英文）
动词 Verb
- (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- (intransitive) To make a loan.
- (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
- To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
- (proscribed) To borrow