英语词汇chooser的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	chooser
词源	chooser n. "one who chooses, one who has power or right of choosing," 16c., agent noun from choose (v.). Replaced Middle English chesere (late 14c.), fem. cheseresse. Proverb beggars should be no choosers is in Heywood (1562). Entries linking to chooser choose v. Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select from two or more; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic keus- (source also of Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root geus- "to taste; to choose." Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200. updated on November 14, 2017
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