英语词汇“Indo-European root: meigh-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: meigh-

释义

‌‌meigh-
To urinate. Oldest form *meig̑h‑, becoming *meigh‑ in centum languages.

1. mist, from Old English mist, mist;
2. mizzle¹, from Middle English misellen, to drizzle, from a source perhaps akin to Dutch dialectal mieselen, to drizzle;
3. missel thrush, mistletoe, from Old English mistel, mistletoe, from Germanic diminutive form *mihst-ila‑, mistletoe (which is propagated through the droppings of the missel thrush). a-c all from Germanic suffixed form *mih-stu‑, urine, hence mist, fine rain.
Suffixed form *migh-tu‑. micturate, from Latin micturīre, to want to urinate (desiderative of meiere, to urinate).

[Pokorny meig̑h‑ 713.]

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