英文词源
- plight
- plight: see pleat
- plight (v.)
- "to pledge" (obsolete except in archaic plight one's troth), from Old English pligtan, plihtan "to endanger, imperil, compromise," verb form of pliht (n.) "danger, risk" (see plight (n.2)). Related: Plighted; plighting.
- plight (n.1)
- "condition or state (usually bad)," late 12c., "danger, harm, strife," from Anglo-French plit, pleit, Old French pleit, ploit "condition" (13c.), originally "way of folding," from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum, neuter past participle of Latin plicare "to fold, lay" (see ply (v.1)).
Originally in neutral sense (as in modern French en bon plit "in good condition"), sense of "harmful state" (and current spelling) probably is from convergence and confusion with plight (n.2) via notion of "entangling risk, pledge or promise with great risk to the pledger." - plight (n.2)
- "pledge," mid-13c., "pledge, promise," usually involving risk or loss in default, from Old English pliht "danger, risk, peril, damage," from Proto-Germanic *pleg- (cognates: Old Frisian plicht "danger, concern, care," Middle Dutch, Dutch plicht "obligation, duty," Old High German pfliht, German Pflicht "obligation, duty" (see plight (v.)). Compare Old English plihtere "look-out man at the prow of a ship," plihtlic "perilous, dangerous."
中文词源
plight：苦境，困境
pleat, plait和plight本质上是同一个词,来源于拉丁语动词plic.are(折叠,卷绕)过去分词的名词用法plicitum或plictum(折叠),经古法语pleit派生而来。
-plic-折叠 → plight
同源词：pleat, plait
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：plight 词源，plight 含义。
plight：誓言，誓约，订婚
来自古英语pliht,有风险的承诺，危险，风险，来自Proto-Germanic*pleg,承诺，责任，担保， 来自PIE*dlegh,忙于，从事于，责任，承诺，来自PIE*del,长的，词源同long,play,pledge.引 申词义誓言，誓约，特别是郑重的誓言，如订婚。
plight：苦难，困境
来自古法语pleit,情况，来自拉丁语plicare,卷入，卷进，词源同ply,complex.后主要用于指坏 的情况，引申词义苦难，困境。词义部分受到上一词义的影响。