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Witness Oath Cognates Dutch 6440.Oath 英 əʊθ]美 Oθ

正面 6440.oath
英 [əʊθ]美 [oθ]

背面
释义:
n. 誓言,誓约;诅咒,咒骂
例句:
1. His girlfriend had gone into the witness box and taken the oath.他的女朋友进入证人席并立了誓。

1. rib => reef.
oath 誓言,诅咒来自古英语ath,发誓,以神的名义起誓所言为真,来自Proto-Germanic*aithaz,来自PIE*oito,发誓。引申词义诅咒。
oath (n.)Old English að "oath, judicial swearing, solemn appeal to deity in witness of truth or a promise," from Proto-Germanic *aithaz (cognates: Old Norse eiðr, Swedish ed, Old Saxon, Old Frisian eth, Middle Dutch eet, Dutch eed, German eid, Gothic aiþs "oath"), from PIE *oi-to- "an oath" (cognates: Old Irish oeth "oath"). Common to Celtic and Germanic, possibly a loan-word from one to the other, but the history is obscure. In reference to careless invocations of divinity, from late 12c."

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