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Guerrilla War Prevent High German Werra Guerr Literally

正面 5503.guerrilla
英 [gə'rɪlə]美 [gə'rɪlə]

背面
释义:
n. 游击战;游击队
例句:
1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.设立了安全区以防止游击队员的渗入。

1. w gu, -w- -gu-.2. war => werr- (Old High German werra "war") => guerr- "war".3. guerr- "war" + -illa (diminutive suffix).4. literally "little war".
guerrilla 游击队词源同war,战争。-illa, 小词后缀。
guerrilla (n.)"fighter in an irregular, independent armed force," 1809, from Spanish guerrilla "body of skirmishers, skirmishing warfare," literally "little war," diminutive of guerra "war," from a Germanic source cognate with Old High German werra "strife, conflict, war," from Proto-Germanic *werra- (see war (n.)). Acquired by English during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), when bands of Spanish peasants and shepherds annoyed the occupying French. Purists failed in their attempt to keep this word restricted to "irregular warfare" and prevent it taking on the sense properly belonging to guerrillero "guerrilla fighter." Figurative use by 1861. As an adjective from 1811."

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