英语词汇pirl的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pirl
词源	pirl v. "to twist, wind, spin" (thread, etc.), mid-14c. (implied in pirling "revolving"), a word of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse; The Middle English Compendium compares Norwegian purla "spring forth, gush." Compare pern. Related: Pirled. Entries linking to pirl pern v. "to move with a winding motion," a word used in poetry by Yeats from c. 1920, probably from a variant of dialectal pirn (n.) "small cylinder on which thread or yarn is wound (mid-15c.), which seems to have survived in dialects in Celtic parts of Britain. It is perhaps from prin "a twig, shoot of a tree" (c.1400), itself a variant of prene "a nail, spike," from Old English preon. updated on October 08, 2022
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