sister是什么意思

sister

英 ['s?st?] 美 ['s?st?]

n. 姐妹；（稱志同道合者）姐妹；修女；護(hù)士
adj. 姐妹般的；同類型的

中文詞源

sister 姐妹，修女

來(lái)自中古英語(yǔ) sister,來(lái)自古英語(yǔ) sweoster,姐妹，修女，來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*swester,姐妹，來(lái) 自 PIE*swesor,姐妹，可能來(lái)自 PIE*swe,自己的，詞源同 self,-sor,姐妹，來(lái)自 PIE*es-ro,血，詞源同 sanguine,sorority.拼寫(xiě)可能受表陰性格后綴-ster 影響俗化，如 spinster,紡紗女。

英文詞源

sister: sister: [OE] Sister is one of a widespread family of ‘sister’-words that go back ultimately to Indo- European *swesor. Amongst its other descendants are Latin soror (source of French soeur, Italian sorella, and Romanian sora, not to mention English sorority [16]), Russian, Czech, and Serbo-Croat sestra, Polish siostra, Welsh chwaer, Breton c’hoar, Lithuanian sesuo, and Sanskrit svasar-. To prehistoric Germanic it contributed *swestr, which has evolved into German schwester, Dutch zuster, Swedish syster, Danish s?ster, and English sister. English cousin goes back ultimately to a compound based on *swesor, the Old Latin antecedent of soror.
=> sorority
sister (n.): mid-13c., from Old English sweostor, swuster "sister," or a Scandinavian cognate (Old Norse systir, Swedish syster, Danish s?ster), in either case from Proto-Germanic *swestr- (cognates: Old Saxon swestar, Old Frisian swester, Middle Dutch suster, Dutch zuster, Old High German swester, German Schwester, Gothic swistar).

These are from PIE *swesor, one of the most persistent and unchanging PIE root words, recognizable in almost every modern Indo-European language (Sanskrit svasar-, Avestan shanhar-, Latin soror, Old Church Slavonic, Russian sestra, Lithuanian sesuo, Old Irish siur, Welsh chwaer, Greek eor). French soeur "a sister" (11c., instead of *sereur) is directly from Latin soror, a rare case of a borrowing from the nominative case.

According to Klein's sources, probably from PIE roots *swe- "one's own" + *ser- "woman." For vowel evolution, see bury. Used of nuns in Old English; of a woman in general from 1906; of a black woman from 1926; and in the sense of "fellow feminist" from 1912. Meaning "female fellow-Christian" is from mid-15c. Sister act "variety act by two or more sisters" is from vaudeville (1908).

雙語(yǔ)例句

1. My sister needed an escort for a company dinner.: 我妹妹需要一個(gè)陪她參加公司晚宴的男伴。

2. He had very little in common with his sister.: 他和姐姐幾乎沒(méi)有什么共同語(yǔ)言。

3. Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other.: 雷和妹妹勒妮的住處僅相隔25英里。

4. Sister Francesca entered the chapel, took her seat, and promptly fell asleep.: 弗朗西絲卡修女走進(jìn)小教堂，坐下來(lái)，很快就睡著了。

5. Sister Morrison might take issue with me on that matter.: 莫里森修女在那件事上或許會(huì)和我持不同意見(jiàn)。

sister是什么意思

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