英文词源
- astound
- astound: [17] Astound, astonish, and stun all come ultimately from the same origin: a Vulgar Latin verb *extonāre, which literally meant something like ‘leave someone thunderstruck’ (it was formed from the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’). This became Old French estoner, which had three offshoots in English: it was borrowed into Middle English in the 13th century as astone or astun, and immediately lost its initial a, producing a form stun; then in the 15th century, in Scotland originally, it had the suffix -ish grafted on to it, producing astonish; and finally in the 17th century its past participle, astoned or, as it was also spelled, astound, formed the basis of a new verb.
=> astonish, stun - astound (v.)
- mid-15c., from Middle English astouned, astoned (c. 1300), past participle of astonen, astonien "to stun" (see astonish), with more of the original sense of Vulgar Latin *extonare. Related: Astounded; astounding.
中文词源
发音释义：[ə'staʊnd] vt. 使惊骇；使震惊
结构分析：astound = as（=ex，出来）+tound（雷击）→被雷击得魂魄出窍→使震惊
词源解释：tound←拉丁语tonare（雷击）
同源词：thunder（雷鸣）；astonish（使惊讶）
衍生词：astounding（令人震惊的）；astoundment（震惊）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：astound 词源，astound 含义。
as来自前缀ex- 变体，此处表强调。词根ton, 雷，拟声词，同thunder. 指如被雷击。缀生字母d, 同sound.
