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French Grave Sand Gravel Diminutive Celtic I Gravele

正面 5688.gravel
英 ['græv(ə)l]美 ['ɡrævl]

背面
释义:
n. 碎石;砂砾vt. 用碎石铺;使船搁浅在沙滩上;使困惑n. (Gravel)人名;(英、法、西)格拉韦尔
例句:
1. I signed in and crunched across the gravel to my room.我签到后嘎吱嘎吱走过石子路来到我的房间。

1. from Old French gravele "sand, gravel," diminutive of grave "sand, seashore" (Modern French grève).2. grave 坟 + l 象把铁锹,挖坟时挖出的沙石;grave 雕刻 + l 象把刀,刻刀刻下的沙石。3. grave(n 墓穴;坟墓),l:grave是用gravel堆积而成的。4. -el 指小后缀,因此该词表示:一些细碎的、小而碎的东西。
gravel 沙砾,砾石来自PIE*ghreu, 刮,磨,擦,词源同chrism, great, grit. 即磨下来的小砂子。
gravelgravel: [13] Gravel is of Celtic origin. It has been traced to a prehistoric Celtic *gravo- ‘gravel’, never actually recorded but deduced from Breton grouan and Cornish grow ‘soft granite’. French borrowed it as grave ‘gravel, pebbles’ (perhaps the source of the English verb grave ‘clean a ship’s bottom’ [15], now encountered virtually only in graving dock, from the notion of ships being hauled up on to the pebbles of the seashore for cleaning). The Old French diminutive of grave was gravelle – whence English gravel.gravel (n.)"stone in small, irregular fragments," early 13c., from Old French gravele "sand, gravel; sea-shore; sandy bed of a river," diminutive of grave "sand, seashore" (Modern French grève), possibly from Celtic *graw- (compare Welsh gro "coarse gravel," Breton grouan, Cornish grow "gravel"), perhaps ultimately from PIE *ghreu- "to rub, grind" (see grit (n.)). Gravel-crusher was World War I slang for "infantryman.""

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