英文词源
- twelve
- twelve: [OE] Etymologically, twelve probably means ‘two over’ (just as eleven means ‘one over’). It appears to go back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from *twa- ‘two’ and *lif- (a relative of English leave), which also produced German zwölf, Dutch twaalf, Swedish tolf, and Danish tolv. If so, its underlying meaning is ‘two left (over ten)’, hence ‘ten plus two’.
=> leave, two - twelve (adj.)
- Old English twelf "twelve," literally "two left" (over ten), from Proto-Germanic *twa-lif-, a compound of the root of two + *lif-, root of the verb leave (see eleven). Compare Old Saxon twelif, Old Norse tolf, Old Frisian twelef, Middle Dutch twalef, Dutch twaalf, Old High German zwelif, German zwölf, Gothic twalif. Outside Germanic, an analogous formation is Lithuanian dvylika, with second element -lika "left over."
中文词源
来自古英语 twelf,十二，字面意思即剩下两个，来自 Proto-Germanic*twa-lif,十二，来自 PIE*dwo,二，词源同 two,PIE*leip,停留，留下，词源同 leave.比较 eleven.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：twelve 词源，twelve 含义。
来自古英语 twelf,十二，字面意思即剩下两个，来自 Proto-Germanic*twa-lif,十二，来自 PIE*dwo,二，词源同 two,PIE*leip,停留，留下，词源同 leave.比较 eleven.
