單詞小站NO.36 | 考研英語大綱詞彙 lame

【中文詞源】：

1.lame 跛的

來自PIE*lem,擊，打，詞源同lam,lambaste.引申詞義打跛，跛的。

2.lame 金銀錦緞

來自拉丁語lamina,層，薄片，詞源同laminate,omelet.用於指金銀錦緞織物。

【英語詞源】：

lame: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic had an adjective *lamon which meant 『weak-limbed』, and seems to have originated in a base which meant something like 『break by hitting』 (English lam 『hit』 [16], as in 『lam into someone』, and its derivative lambaste [17] probably come from the same source). In the modern Germanic languages it has diversified into two strands of meaning: Dutch, Swedish, and Danish lam denote mainly 『paralysed』, a sense also present in German lahm, while English lame has taken the path of 『limping, crippled』.

=> lam, lambaste