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Fell German English Fel Proto Germanic Cognates Norse Hide

单词 fell
音标 [fel]
解释 n.兽皮;v.砍伐;a.兇猛的,可怕的
红宝书 【英】 n.兽皮(an animal's hide or skin);v.砍伐(to cut down a tree or trees)
【考】 quarry : stone / fell : timber(采石目标是石头/伐 木目标是木头)
【记】 和fall 的过去式fell拼写一 致
【例】 a felled oak
字源 fell (v.1)
Old English fællan (Mercian), fyllan (West Saxon) "make fall, cause to fall," also "strike down, demolish, kill," from Proto-Germanic *falljan "strike down, cause to fall" (cognates: Old Frisian falla, Old Saxon fellian, Dutch fellen, Old High German fellen, German fällen, Old Norse fella, Danish fælde), causative of *fallan (source of Old English feallan, see fall (v.)), showing i-mutation. Related: Felled; feller; felling.
fell (adj.)
"cruel," late 13c., from Old French fel "cruel, fierce, vicious," from Medieval Latin fello "villain" (see felon). Phrase at one fell swoop is from "Macbeth."
fell (n.1)
"rocky hill," c.1300, from Old Norse fiall
"mountain," from Proto-Germanic *felzam- "rock" (cognates: German Fels "stone, rock"), from PIE root *pel(i)s- "rock, cliff."
fell (v.2)
Old English feoll; past tense of fall (v.).
fell (n.2)
"skin or hide of an animal," Old English fel, from Proto-Germanic *felnam- (cognates: Old Frisian fel, Old Saxon fel, Dutch vel, Old High German fel, German fell, Old Norse fiall, Gothic fill), from PIE *pel-no-, suffixed form of root *pel- (4) "skin, hide" (see film (n.)).
不择手段背单词 v. 砍伐; 杀死
【记】fell树, 树就会fall
【类】quarry: stone = fell: timber 采石头 = 伐木头
趣味全助记 【记】fall 的过去式;该词的几个意思串起来,武松在景阳岗正睡觉,突然一只fell(兇猛的)老虎从上面fall(扑)了过来,武松将其fell(打倒致死),还剥了其fell(兽皮)

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