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Wear Past Participle English Worse Put Germanic Latin

正面 519.wear
英 [weə]美 [wɛr]

背面
释义:
n. 穿著;磨损;耐久性v. 穿著;用旧;耗损;面露
例句:
1. He arrived on January 9, disheveled and much the worse for wear.他是1月9号到的,蓬头垢面,疲惫不堪。

1、re- "again" + cord-.2、该词可以说与remember是殊途同归。3、该词的最初含义为:repeat, reiterate, recite, tell, relate, report, make known; remember, call to mind, think over, be mindful of. 其后,其含义演变为:set down in writing, put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc.4、记录、记载从某种意义上讲也就是对其说的内容进行重复、复述,将其记住。记录下来的东西其实就是无声的话语,有形的记忆,看得到的记忆。
wear 穿戴,磨损来自PIE*wes,穿衣,词源同vest,invest,字母r,s音变。引申词义磨损,损耗。
wearwear: [OE] Wear goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *wazjan, of whose other descendants only the Icelandic past participle varinn ‘clad’ survives. This was formed from the base *was-, which in turn was descended from Indo- European *wes-, source of Latin vestis ‘clothing’, from which English gets vest, vestment, etc.=> vestwear (v.)Old English werian "to clothe, put on, cover up," from Proto-Germanic *wazjan (cognates: Old Norse verja, Old High German werian, Gothic gawasjan "to clothe"), from PIE *wos-eyo-, from root *wes- (4) "to clothe" (cognates: Sanskrit vaste "he puts on," vasanam "garment;" Avestan vah-; Greek esthes "clothing," hennymi "to clothe," eima "garment;" Latin vestire "to clothe;" Welsh gwisgo, Breton gwiska; Old English wæstling "sheet, blanket;" Hittite washshush "garments," washanzi "they dress"). The Germanic forms "were homonyms of the vb. for 'prevent, ward off, protect' (Goth. warjan, O.E. werian, etc.), and this was prob. a factor in their early displacement in most of the Gmc. languages" [Buck]. Shifted from a weak verb (past tense and past participle wered) to a strong one (past tense wore, past participle worn) in 14c. on analogy of rhyming strong verbs such as bear and tear. Secondary sense of "use up, gradually damage" (late 13c.) is from effect of continued use on clothes. To wear down (transitive) "overcome by steady force" is from 1843. To wear off "diminish by attrition or use" is from 1690s.wear (n.)"action of wearing" (clothes), mid-15c., from wear (v.). Meaning "what one wears" is 1560s. To be the worse for wear is attested from 1782; noun phrase wear and tear is first recorded 1660s, implying the sense "process of being degraded by use.""

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