擠成一團的東西
這一族就是核心畫面本身,差別只在「那一團是什麼做的」,以及它是名詞還是動作。
noun · B2
A small thick mass of something soft or loose, such as earth, mud, wet hair, or snow, that has stuck together into one piece with no clear shape.
一團;一塊
You can think of clump as one thick shapeless mass made of things that have pressed together: a handful of wet earth, hair stuck in a drain, a few bushes grown into one dark shape. Nothing in it is arranged, and nobody lined it up. The parts simply hold together, and you see the mass before you see the parts.
Wiktionary traces clump to Middle English clompe and Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre meaning a lump or mass of metal, from Proto-Germanic *klumpo, mass or lump. The oldest recorded meaning is already the lump itself.
Wiktionary 把 clump 追到中古英語 clompe、古英語 clymppe,它是 clympre(一團金屬)的變體,再往上是原始日耳曼語的 *klumpô(團、塊)。所以「一團東西」這個畫面,從最早的紀錄就已經在了,不是後來才長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for clump (evidence packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1019805917:14005)
Two branches
擠成一團的東西
這一族就是核心畫面本身,差別只在「那一團是什麼做的」,以及它是名詞還是動作。
noun · B2
A small thick mass of something soft or loose, such as earth, mud, wet hair, or snow, that has stuck together into one piece with no clear shape.
一團;一塊
沉重、悶悶的一下
跟核心的連結可以這樣想:一塊重東西落地,發出的就是這種鈍鈍的聲音。不過這只是幫助記憶的想法,手上的證據並沒有說這兩個用法在歷史上是同一條線。
noun · B2
The low, heavy sound that a person's feet make when they walk slowly and noisily, especially in boots or other heavy shoes.
沉重的腳步聲