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Germanic Path West Word German Dutch Borrowed Uncertain

正面 1341.path
英 [pɑːθ]美 [pæθ]

背面
释义:
n. 道路;小路;轨道
例句:
1. Stewart was trying to clear a path for the stretcher.斯图尔特在努力给担架开路。

〔近音词〕经过(pass)小路(path)
path 小路,小径来自古英语path,小路,小径,来自Proto-Germanic*pathaz,来自PIE*pent,走,经过,踩踏,词源同find,pons.可能进一步来自PIE*pete,展开,来自PIE*ped,脚,词源同foot,pedestal.
pathpath: [OE] Path is a West Germanic word of uncertain ultimate origin. Its cousins German pfad and Dutch pad point back to a prehistoric West Germanic ancestor *patha, but no one is too sure where this came from (one possibility is that it was borrowed somehow from Greek pátos ‘path’). The verb pad ‘tread, walk’ and the -pad of footpad come from the same source.=> padpath (n.)Old English paþ, pæþ "path, track," from West Germanic *patha- (cognates: Old Frisian path, Middle Dutch pat, Dutch pad, Old High German pfad, German Pfad "path"), of uncertain origin. The original initial -p- in a Germanic word is an etymological puzzle. Don Ringe ("From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic," Oxford 2006) describes it as "An obvious loan from Iranian ..., clearly borrowed after Grimm’s Law had run its course." Watkins says the word is "probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-," from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go, pass" (source of Avestan patha "way;" see find (v.)), but this is too much of a stretch for OED and others. In Scotland and Northern England, commonly a steep ascent of a hill or in a road."

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