讓心裡好過的人或事物
這一支就是核心畫面最直接的樣子：comfort 加 -er，指出安慰是從誰或什麼來的。
noun · B2
A person or a thing that makes someone feel less sad, worried or hurt.
安慰的人／慰藉
核心畫面
One way to hold comforter: it is comfort with -er stuck on the end, so it names whatever takes the cold, the sad or the sore edge off you. The word never says how. Sometimes the answer is a person who sits down beside you and says very little. Sometimes it is a thing you pull around your body — the thick cover on a bed, or wool wound twice round a neck in the snow. Point at the source of the comfort, and you have used the word.
可以想成 comfort（安慰、舒服）加上 -er（做這件事的人或東西）。這個字不挑是人還是物，只指向「讓你好過一點…更多收起
可以想成 comfort（安慰、舒服）加上 -er（做這件事的人或東西）。這個字不挑是人還是物，只指向「讓你好過一點的那個來源」。有時候是坐下來陪你、話不多的人。有時候是裹住身體的東西：床上那件厚被子，或雪天裡繞在脖子上兩圈的羊毛。只要指出安慰是從哪裡來的，就用得上這個字。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces comforter through Middle English comfortour and Anglo-Norman confortour to Old French conforter, and refers the reader to comfort. So the -er shape is visible all the way back: the one that comforts.
字源資料把 comforter 追到中古英文 comfortour、盎格魯諾曼語 confortour，再到古法文 conforter，並指向 comfort 這個字。也就是說，「安慰的那一個」這個結構從一開始就在，後來才分別落在人、被子和圍巾身上。
Wiktionary/kaikki extract supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1291264196): 'From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.'
Two branches
裹住身體的暖東西
同樣是「讓你舒服的那個東西」，只是安慰從心裡移到身體上：把布裹上來，冷就退掉了。
noun · B2
A thick soft cover for a bed, filled with feathers or another warm material, that you sleep under. This is the usual American English word; British speakers say duvet or quilt.
厚被／羽絨被