英文词源
- linger
- linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German längen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into English in the 10th century as leng. By now, ‘lengthen’ had progressed metaphorically via ‘prolong’ to ‘delay’, which is what it meant when linger was derived from it in the 13th century.
=> long - linger (v.)
- c. 1300, lenger "reside, dwell," northern England frequentative of lengen "to tarry," from Old English lengan "prolong, lengthen," from Proto-Germanic *langjan "to make long" (cognates: Old Frisian lendza, Old High German lengan, Dutch lengen "to lengthen"), source of Old English lang (see long (adj.)). Sense of "delay going, depart slowly and unwillingly" is from 1520s. Related: Lingered; lingering.
中文词源
linger：逗留，留连
来自古英语lengan,延长，加长，词源同long.引申词义逗留，流连。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：linger 词源，linger 含义。
linger：延长；逗留，徘徊，拖延
来源于史前日耳曼语langgjan(使延长),德语为laengen。
词根词缀： ling(long)长的 + -er动词词尾 → 延长 → 留恋徘徊
linger：徘徊；逗留
它和long（长的）同源，涉及元音音变；“徘徊，逗留”是在原地停留很长的时间。同样地，lounge（休息室；起居室）也是同源词，可以在“逗留”含义的基础上助记，休息室是人们的逗留之处；其本义是"lie at full length"，就是可将身体完全伸展的地方。