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

释义

‌‌weip-
To turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically.
Derivatives include wipe, whip, and vibrate.

O-grade form *woip‑. waif¹, waif², waive, waiver, from Anglo-Norman waif, ownerless property, from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Norse veif, waving thing, flag, from Germanic *waif‑.
Variant form *weib‑.
1. wipe, from Old English wīpian, to wipe;
2. guipure, from Old French guiper, to cover with silk;
3. whip, from Middle English wippen, to whip. a-c all from Germanic *wīpjan, to move back and forth.
Perhaps suffixed nasalized zero-grade form *wi-m-p-ila‑.
1. wimple, from Old English wimpel, covering for the neck (< "something that winds around");
2. gimp¹, guimpe, from Old High German wimpal, guimpe;
3. perhaps Middle Dutch wimmel, auger (< "that which turns in boring") wimble.
Suffixed zero-grade variant form *wib-ro‑. vibrate, from Latin vibrāre, to vibrate.

[Pokorny u̯eip‑ 1131.]

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