helve

英 [helv]美 [hɛlv]
  • n. 柄
  • vt. 装柄于
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1. 同源词：helve, helm, halter.
2. 他们都表示用于控制某类工具的部件，这个部件是该工具的一部分，他们在具体含义上进行了细分。
3. helm, halter => helve.

shaft矛柄。
haft把柄。
helve斧柄。

4. hold => halt => halter => helve.
5. "that by which something is held".

中文词源

helve 武器或工具的把，柄

来自古英语helfe,斧柄，来自PIE*kelp,抓住，握住，词源同halter,helm,help.

英文词源

helve (n.)
Old English helfe, hielfe "handle of an axe" or other tool or weapon, from Proto-Germanic *halb- (cognates: Old Saxon helvi, Middle Dutch helf, Old High German halb "handle of an axe," Old High German helmo "tiller"); related to halter and helm (1), from PIE *kelp- "to hold, grasp." In Middle English, to holden the axe bi the helve (c. 1200) meant "to take something by the right end."

双语例句

1. The axe go to the wood where it borrow its helve.
斧头伐木不畏缩,尽管斧柄木头做.
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2. Throw the helve after the hatchet.
赔了夫人又折兵.
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