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Vodka Voda Diminutive Russian Literally Water Suffix 8548.Vodka

正面 8548.vodka
英 ['vɒdkə]美 ['vɑdkə]

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释义:
n. 伏特加酒
例句:
1. Oscar, much the worse for vodka, did a striptease.奥斯卡喝了伏特加后醉醺醺地跳起了脱衣舞。

1. from Russian vodka, literally "little water," from voda "water" (see water) + diminutive suffix -ka.2. 音译“伏特加”
vodka 伏特加来自俄语vodka,小水,精致的水,词源同water,-ka,小词后缀,词源同troika,三驾马车。
vodkavodka: [19] Vodka denotes etymologically ‘little water’. The word was borrowed at the beginning of the 19th century from Russian vodka, which is a diminutive form of voda ‘water’. And voda came from the same Indo-European source (*wedōr, *wodōr) as produced English water. The euphemistic application of the term water to distilled spirits is also responsible for eau de vie and whisky, both of which mean literally ‘water of life’.=> watervodka (n.)1802, from Russian vodka, literally "little water," diminutive of voda "water" (from PIE *wod-a-, from root *wed- (1) "water, wet;" see water (n.1)) + diminutive suffix -ka."

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