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Hire Low German Dutch Danish English Proto Germanic 1497.Hire

正面 1497.hire
英 ['haɪə]美 ['haɪɚ]

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释义:
n. 雇用,租用;租金,工钱vt. 雇用;出租vi. 雇用,租用;受雇
例句:
1. Child car seats only cost about £10 a week to hire.儿童汽车坐椅一周的租金才10英镑。

1、parti- + cip- + -ate.2、含义:share, partake.3、其构词与词源含义与partake(缩略自part-take)有异曲同工之妙;其实,partake就是根据participate的词源信息构词的。
hire 租用,雇佣来自Proto-Germanic*hurjan,租,借。
hirehire: [OE] Hire probably originated in North Germany, in the area where the set of dialects known as Low German was spoken. It comes from a prehistoric *khūr-, which also produced Dutch huren (Swedish hyra and Danish hyre were borrowed from Low German).hire (v.)Old English hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from Proto-Germanic *hurjan (cognates: Danish hyre, Old Frisian hera, Dutch huren, German heuern "to hire, rent"). Reflexively, "to agree to work for wages" from mid-13c. Related: Hired; hiring.hire (n.)"payment for work, use, or services; wages," from Old English hyr "wages; interest, usury," from Proto-Germanic *hurja- (see hire (v.))."

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