英文词源
- skirt
- skirt: [13] Essentially skirt is the same word as shirt. It was borrowed from Old Norse skyrta ‘shirt’, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic source as English shirt, and likewise meant etymologically ‘short garment’. It is not clear why English came to use the word for ‘woman’s garment hanging from the waist’, but a link may be provided by modern Icelandic skyrta, which denotes a sort of long shirt with full tails that come down well below the waist. Swedish skört and Danish skørt ‘skirt’ were borrowed from the related Middle Low German schorte ‘apron’.
=> shear, shirt, short - skirt (n.)
- early 14c., "lower part of a woman's dress," from Old Norse skyrta "shirt, a kind of kirtle;" see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (compare Low German cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded late 15c. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1550s; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
- skirt (v.)
- c. 1600, "to border, form the edge of," from skirt (n.). Meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1620s. Related: Skirted; skirting.
中文词源
skirt：裙子；边缘；(pl.)郊区
来源于史前日耳曼语,经由古斯堪的纳维亚语skyrta进入英语。
同源词： shirt
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：skirt 词源，skirt 含义。
skirt：裙子；边缘
8世纪末维京海盗开始骚扰并逐步侵占了英国东北部，他们的语言与古英语同属日耳曼语，其中一个区别是，sk音在词首出现时，维京海盗的语言里保持不变，古英语里变成了sh音，于是skirt和shirt衬衫实际是一个单词，脑洞开一点也可以知道short也与它俩相关。
skirt：女裙，裙摆，挡板，裙板，环绕
来自 shirt 对词形式，后产生词义上的分化，shirt 用于指男士衬衫，该词用于指女裙，裙摆， 并引申比喻义挡板，裙板，环绕等，如 outskirt,外围，郊区。