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

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Indo-European root: terə-

释义

‌‌terə-²
To cross over, pass through, overcome. Oldest form *terh₂‑, with variant *treh₂‑, colored to *trah₂‑, becoming *trā‑.
Derivatives include thrill, nostril, and trench.

Zero-grade form *tr̥(ə)‑.
1. thrill; nostril, from Old English thyr(e)l, thȳrel, a hole (< "a boring through"), from Germanic suffixed form *thur-ila‑.
2. Suffixed form *tr̥ə-k^we. thorough, through, from Old English thurh, thuruh, through, from Germanic *thurh.
3. Greek nektar (see nek-¹).
4. Zero-grade form *tr̥ə‑ and full-grade form *ter(ə)‑. avatar, from Sanskrit tirati, tarati, he crosses over.
Variant form *trā‑ (< *traə‑).
1. trans-, transient, transom, from Latin trāns, across, over, beyond, through (perhaps originally the present participle of a verb *trāre, to cross over).
2. Suffixed form *trā-yo‑. seraglio, serai; caravansary, lamasery, from Iranian *thrāya‑, to protect.
Possible extended form *tru‑.
1. Suffixed form *tru-k‑. truculent, from Latin trux (stem truc‑), savage, fierce, grim (< "overcoming," "powerful," "penetrating").
2. Suffixed nasalized zero-grade form *tru-n-k-o‑. tranche, trench, truncate, trunk, from Latin truncus, deprived of branches or limbs, mutilated, hence trunk (? < "overcome, maimed").

[Pokorny 5. ter‑ 1075.]

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