worry
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 担心，烦恼，忧虑，苦恼，撕咬
- vt.
- 使烦恼，使焦虑，使苦恼，困扰，折磨，撕咬
- vi.
- 烦恼，担心，撕咬
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 worien “to choke, strangle”
- 继承自 ←古英语 wyrġan
- 继承自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *wurgijan
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *wurgijaną
- 源自 ←原始印欧语 *werǵʰ- “bind, squeeze”
词源说明
From Middle English worien (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *wurgijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”).
Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit वृहति (vṛhati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.