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Narrow English Germanic Dutch Nearu Related Adj 2018.Narrow

正面 2018.narrow
英 ['nærəʊ]美 ['næro]

背面
释义:
adj. 狭窄的,有限的;勉强的;精密的;度量小的n. 海峡;狭窄部分,隘路vt. 使变狭窄vi. 变窄
例句:
1. Sailing boats lay at anchor in the narrow waterway.帆船停泊在狭窄的水道上。

1. ex- + pos- + -e.2. 字面含义:put out, place out, set forth. => leave without shelter or defense, exhibit openly.
narrow 狭窄的来自古英语nearu,狭窄的,压抑的,来自PIE*sner,弯,转,扭曲。引申词义狭窄的。
narrownarrow: [OE] Narrow comes from a prehistoric Germanic *narwaz, whose only other modern representative is Dutch naar ‘unpleasant, sad’ (although it also occurs in Norva-sund, the Old Norse term for the ‘Straits of Gibraltar’). It is not known for certain where it comes from, but a connection has been suggested with Latin nervus ‘sinew, bowstring’ (source of English nerve) and Old High German snuor ‘string’, which might point back to an ancestral sense ‘tying together tightly’.narrow (adj.)Old English nearu "narrow, constricted, limited; petty; causing difficulty, oppressive; strict, severe," from West Germanic *narwaz "narrowness" (cognates: Frisian nar, Old Saxon naru, Middle Dutch nare, Dutch naar); not found in other Germanic languages and of unknown origin. The narrow seas (c. 1400) were the waters between Great Britain and the continent and Ireland. Related: Narrowness.narrow (n.)c. 1200, nearewe "narrow part, place, or thing," from narrow (adj.). Old English nearu (n.) meant "danger, distress, difficulty," also "prison, hiding place."narrow (v.)Old English nearwian "to force in, cramp, confine; become smaller, shrink;" see narrow (adj.). Related: Narrowed; narrowing."

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