英语词汇starch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	starch
词源	starch v. late 14c., from Old English stercan (Mercian), stiercan (West Saxon) "make rigid," found in stercedferhð "fixed, hard, resolute" (related to stearc "stiff"), from Proto-Germanic starkjan "to make hard" (source also of German Stärke "strength, starch," Swedish stärka "to starch"), from PIE root ster- (1) "stiff." Related: Starched; starching. starch n. "pasty substance used to stiffen cloth," mid-15c., back-formation from starch (v.). Figurative sense of "stiffness of manner" is recorded from 1705. Entries linking to starch *ster- 1 Proto-Indo-European root meaning "stiff." It forms all or part of: cholesterol; redstart; starch; stare; stark; stark-naked; start; startle; starve; stere; stereo-; stern (adj.); stork; strut; torpedo; torpid; torpor. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek stereos "solid," sterizein "to support," sterphnios "stiff, rigid," sterphos "hide, skin;" Sanskrit sthirah "hard, firm," Persian suturg "strong;" Lithuanian storas "thick," strėgti "to become frozen;" Old Church Slavonic trupeti, Lithuanian tirpstu, tirpti "to become rigid;" Old Church Slavonic strublu "strong, hard," staru "old" (hence Russian stary "old"); Old English starian "to stare," stearc "stiff, strong, rigid," steorfan "to die," literally "become stiff," styrne "severe, strict." starchy adj. 1795, from starch (n.) + -y (2). Related: Starchily; starchiness. updated on October 19, 2017
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