英语词汇stung的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	stung
词源	stung past tense and past participle of sting (v.). Entries linking to stung sting v. Old English stingan "to stab, pierce, or prick with a point" (of weapons, insects, plants, etc.), from Proto-Germanic stingan (source also of Old Norse stinga, Old High German stungen "to prick," Gothic us-stagg "to prick out," Old High German stanga, German stange "pole, perch," German stengel "stalk, stem"), perhaps from PIE stengh-, nasalized form of root *stegh- "to stick, prick, sting." Specialized to insects late 15c. Intransitive sense "be sharply painful" is from 1848. Slang meaning "to cheat, swindle" is from 1812. Old English past tense stang, past participle stungen; the past tense later leveled to stung. updated on December 12, 2013
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