這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “pelt”
- 1pelt · throw things at (again and again)連續扔東西砸One way to hold this pelt: things going out one after another and landing hard on the same spot.
- 2pelt · fur skin (from a dead animal)毛皮One way to hold this pelt: a whole animal skin with the fur still on it, spread out so you can almost see the…
pelt · throw things at (again and again)
verbOne way to hold this pelt: things going out one after another and landing hard on the same spot. Not one throw, but a stream of them — snowballs, stones, hail, questions — arriving faster than anyone can move out of the way. What matters in the picture is not aim but the fact that it keeps coming. And when the force belongs to the person rather than to the thing thrown, the same energy shows up in the feet: someone tearing down a street at top speed.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary's etymology 2 traces this pelt to Late Middle English pelt/pelte, probably a variant of pilten (to push, thrust, strike), possibly going back to Latin pultāre (to beat, knock, strike), the frequentative of pellere (to drive, push, hurl). A frequentative verb means repeated action, which fits the one-after-another picture.
依照 Wiktionary 的第二條詞源，這個 pelt 來自晚期中古英語 pelt／pelte，可能是 pilten（推、刺、打）的變體，再往前可能接到拉丁文 pultāre「敲打」，而 pultāre 又是 pellere（驅、推、擲）的反覆型。「反覆」這一點正好對上它今天「一下接一下」的畫面。
Wiktionary, "pelt" (etymology 2)
pelt · fur skin (from a dead animal)
nounOne way to hold this pelt: a whole animal skin with the fur still on it, spread out so you can almost see the shape of the animal in it. It is not the smooth, treated material we call leather — the hair is still there, thick and warm under your hand. Look from that skin toward a living animal and you get the coat it is wearing; look toward the person handling it and you get the act of taking that skin off.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary's etymology 1 gives Middle English pelt (the skin of a sheep), possibly through Anglo-Norman pelette and Old French pel, from Latin pellis (animal skin, hide, leather, a garment made of animal skin). The same root shows up in pelisse, a fur coat.
依照 Wiktionary 的第一條詞源，這個 pelt 來自中古英語 pelt（羊皮），可能經由盎格魯諾曼語 pelette 和古法文 pel，再往前是拉丁文 pellis「獸皮、皮革、獸皮做的衣服」。同一條線上還有 pelisse（毛皮外衣）。所以「一張皮」這個畫面從頭到現在都沒變過。
Wiktionary, "pelt" (etymology 1)
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