英语词汇“Indo-European root: wegh-”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: wegh-

释义

‌‌wegh-
To go, transport in a vehicle. Oldest form *weg̑h‑, becoming *wegh‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include weight, away, wagon, earwig, devious, trivial, and vex.

weigh¹, from Old English wegan, to carry, balance in a scale, from Germanic *wegan.
wee¹, from Old English wǣg(e), weight, unit of weight, from Germanic lengthened-grade form *wēgō.
Suffixed form *wegh-ti‑. weight, from Old English wiht, gewiht, weight, from Germanic *wihti‑.
1. way; always, away, from Old English weg, way;
2. Norwegian, from Old Norse vegr, way;
3. thalweg, from Old High German weg, way. a-c all from Germanic *wegaz, course of travel, way.
Suffixed o-grade form *wogh-no‑.
1. wain, from Old English wæ(g)n, wagon;
2. wagon, from Middle Dutch wagen, wagon. Both a and b from Germanic *wagnaz.
Suffixed o-grade form *wogh-lo‑.
1. walleyed, from Old Norse vagl, chicken roost, perch, beam, eye disease, from Germanic *waglaz;
2. ochlocracy, ochlophobia, from Greek okhlos, populace, mob (< "moving mass").
Distantly related to this root are:
1. 1. graywacke, from Old High German waggo, wacko, boulder rolling on a riverbed, from Germanic *wag‑, "to move about";
  2. wag¹, from Middle English waggen, to wag, possibly from Germanic *wag‑.
2. 1. earwig, from Old English wicga, insect (< "thing that moves quickly");
  2. wiggle, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wiggelen, to move back and forth, wag. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *wig‑.
Basic form *wegh‑. vector, vehement, vehicle; advection, convection, evection, invective, inveigh, from Latin vehere (past participle vectus), to carry.
Suffixed basic form *wegh-yā‑. foy, via, viatical, voyage; convey, convoy, deviate, devious, envoy¹, envoy², invoice, obviate, obvious, ogee, ogive, pervious, previous, trivial, trivium, viaduct, from Latin via, way, road.
Suffixed form *wegh-s‑. vex, from Latin vexāre, to agitate (< "to set in motion").
Probably suffixed form *wegh-so‑. convex, from Latin convexus, "carried or drawn together (to a point)," convex (com‑, together; see kom).

[Pokorny u̯eg̑h‑ 1118.]

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