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Weapon German Germanic Dutch Wapen Danish 931.Weapon 英

正面 931.weapon
英 ['wep(ə)n]美 ['wɛpən]

背面
释义:
n. 武器,兵器
例句:
1. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.他们已经无耻到把能用的武器都用上了。

1. veil => -veal, vel-, velat-.2. re- + -veal.
weapon 武器来自Proto-Germanic*waepan-,武器,可能来自PIE*weip的鼻音形式,弯,转,挥舞,词源同vibrate,wipe。引申词义挥舞武器,刀剑等,最后用做武器。
weaponweapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wǣpnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.weapon (n.)Old English wæpen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *wæpnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic."

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