billow英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

— […] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;

动词 v.

To surge or roll in billows.

— During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […], billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, […]
To swell out or bulge.

— Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.

词形变化

billows plural billows present,singular,third-person billowing participle,present billowed participle,past billowed past

词汇关系

衍生词

billowingly embillow

词源

词源 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *belganą
Proto-Germanic *bulgijō
Old Norse bylgjabor.
Middle English *bilwe
English billow
From Middle English *bilwe, borrowed from Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijō.
Cognates include Danish bølge (“wave”); Norwegian Bokmål bølge (“wave”), Norwegian Nynorsk bylgje (“wave”); Swedish bölja (“wave”); German Low German Bulge, Bulg, Bülg (“billow, wave”); German Bulge (“billow, wave”). Compare bellow, bawl.

词源 2

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *belganą
Proto-Germanic *bulgijō
Old Norse bylgjabor.
Middle English *bilwe
English billow
From Middle English *bilwe, borrowed from Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijō.
Cognates include Danish bølge (“wave”); Norwegian Bokmål bølge (“wave”), Norwegian Nynorsk bylgje (“wave”); Swedish bölja (“wave”); German Low German Bulge, Bulg, Bülg (“billow, wave”); German Bulge (“billow, wave”). Compare bellow, bawl.