用腳走路的人
最直接的一支:主詞是人,動作是走,-er 指的就是那個人。
hiker · noun · C1
A person who walks because they enjoy it or want to exercise, for example in the hills or around town.
健行者
One way to see it: walk + -er, 'the thing that does the walking'. Sometimes the is a person on their own two feet; sometimes it is a frame that supplies the missing steadiness so that walking can happen at all.
From Middle English walkere ('one who walks, traveller'), walk + the agent suffix -er (Old English -ere, ultimately from Latin -arius).
中古英語的 walkere 就是「走路的人、旅人」,構造是 walk 加上表示「做這件事的人/物」的字尾 -er。這個 -er 一路可以追到古英語 -ere、更早借自拉丁語的 -arius,是英語裡最能生的字尾之一——幾乎任何動詞加上去都能造出「做那件事的人或工具」,這也是為什麼 walker 能同時涵蓋人和器具。
Payload-supplied etymology tree (Middle English walkere; Old English -ere ← Latin -arius)
Two branches
用腳走路的人
最直接的一支:主詞是人,動作是走,-er 指的就是那個人。
hiker · noun · C1
A person who walks because they enjoy it or want to exercise, for example in the hills or around town.
健行者
讓人走得起來的架子
-er 從「做這件事的人」滑到「讓這件事發生的器具」,就像 opener 不是在開門的人而是開罐器。核心的「走路」沒有變,變的是誰扮演那個 -er。
walking frame · noun · C1
A metal frame, often with wheels, that older or ill people hold and push to help them walk.
助行器
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Walkername詞源 1
A northern English surname originating as an occupation from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.
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Walkerintj詞源 2
archaicslangExpressing scornful rejection or disbelief.
Walkernoun詞源 3
A Walking Liberty half dollar.
walkernoun詞源 1/ˈwɔːkə/
The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
rareOne who walks (takes for a walk).
A walking frame or baby walker.
A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
fictionliteraturemediaA zombie.
A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
A gressorial bird.
lawA forester.
literaturemediapublishingA kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
ball-gamescricketgamesA batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
A prostitute, streetwalker.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。