street
- n.
- 街道，马路，街区
- adj.
- 街道的
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 strete
- 继承自 ←ang-ang strēt “street”
- 继承自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *strātu “street”
- 源自 ←晚期拉丁语 (via) strāta “paved (road)”
- 源自 ←拉丁语 strātus
- 源自 ←原始印欧语 *sterh₃- “to stretch out, extend, spread”
词源说明
Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Doublet of estrade and stratum.
The /aː/ vowel of the Latin etymon shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep.