词源谷：在线英语词源字典
这是现代英语单词的发展与演变地图。词源不是定义，它们是对英语词汇的历史含义和发音的解释。
单词的词源解释的结尾会标注日期，表示该单词有书面记录的最早年份。这应该被视为近似值，尤其是在1700年之前，因为一个词可能在口语中使用了数百年，才在一份有存留至今的手稿中出现。
本词源词典的基本来源包括Weekley的《现代英语词源词典》、Klein的《英语综合词源词典》、《牛津英语词典》（第二版）、《Barnhart词源词典》、Holthausen的《英语词源词典》以及Kipfer和Chapman的《美国俚语词典》。本编纂所使用的完整印刷资料列表可以在这里找到。
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随机词源
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asyndetic（adj.）
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ballast（n.）
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dol（n.）
疼痛强度的单位，1947年，源自拉丁语 dolor “疼痛，悲伤，悲哀”，可能来自 PIE 词根 *delh- “砍”“基于‘疼痛’是通过‘被撕裂的感觉’来表达的”[de Vaan]。
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interdependency（n.）
1830年，由 interdependent 和抽象名词后缀 -cy 组成。
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moonwalk（n.）
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sapless（adj.）
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tailor-made（adj.）
by 1830 in the figurative sense of "made or shaped to suit" a person or situation, usually slighting.
If we can in any way persuade the young ladies, that the highest trait of beauty they can possess, is a countenance of independence and sufficiency to themselves; ... smirking dandies, shop window loiterers, little puny, tailor-made, essenced time killers, will disappear as insects in summer are drowned in honey. [Greenfield, Mass., Gazette, May 11, 1830]
Perhaps on the contemporary notion of a tailor as "one who makes outer garments to order," as opposed to a clothier, who makes them for sale ready-made. But the expression may owe something to Shakespeare:
Kent. ... You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.
Corn. Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade.
["King Lear"]
The later literal sense (by 1873) was "heavy and plain, with attention to exact fit and with little ornamentation," as of women's garments made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.
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womanhood（n.）