英语词汇breathe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	breathe
词源	breathe v. "to draw air into and expel it from the lungs; to inhale and exhale (a scent, etc.)," c. 1200, not in Old English, but it retains the original Old English vowel of its source word, breath. To breathe (one's) last "die" is from 1590s. To breathe down the back of (someone's) neck "be close behind" is by 1946. Related: Breathed; breathing. Entries linking to breathe breath n. Old English bræð "odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor" (the Old English word for "air exhaled from the lungs" was æðm), from Proto-Germanic bræthaz "smell, exhalation" (source also of Old High German bradam, German Brodem "breath, steam"), perhaps [Watkins] from a PIE root gwhre- "to breathe; smell." The original long vowel (preserved in breathe) has become short. The meaning "ability to breathe," hence "life" is from c. 1300. The meaning "a single act of breathing" is from late 15c.; the sense of "the duration of a breath, a moment, a short time" is from early 13c. The meaning "a breeze, a movement of free air" is from late 14c. breathable adj. "that can be breathed," 1731, from breathe + -able. breather n. c. 1600, "a living creature, one who breathes," agent noun from breathe. The meaning "spell of exercise to stimulate breathing" is from 1836; that of "a rest to recover breath" is from 1882. updated on April 22, 2019
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