英文词源
- goad
- goad: [OE] Goad comes via prehistoric Germanic *gaidō from an Indo-European base *ghai-. This also produced an Old English word for ‘spear’, gār, which survives today in garlic [OE], etymologically ‘spear leek’.
=> garlic - goad (n.)
- Old English gad "point, spearhead, arrowhead, pointed stick used for driving cattle," from Proto-Germanic *gaido "goad, spear" (cognates: Lombardic gaida "spear"), from suffixed form of PIE root *ghei- (1) "to propel, prick" (cognates: Sanskrit hetih "missile, projectile," himsati "he injures;" Avestan zaena- "weapon;" Greek khaios "shepherd's staff;" Old English gar "spear;" Old Irish gae "spear"). Figurative use "anything that urges or stimulates" is since 16c., probably from the Bible.
- goad (v.)
- 1570s, from goad (n.); earliest use is figurative, "incite, stimulate, instigate." Literal use by 1610s. Related: Goaded; goading.
中文词源
来自PIE*ghei, 刺，刺激，词源同gar, goad.
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