bier
英 [bɪə]
美 [bɪr]
- n. 棺材；屍架；棺材架
- n. (Bier)人名；(葡)別爾；(英、德、瑞典)比爾；(法)比耶
英文詞源
- bier
- bier: [OE] Etymologically, a bier is ‘something used for carrying’. It comes from West Germanic *bērō, a derivative of the same base (*ber-) as produced the verb bear. Its Old English form was bēr, and it was not spelled with an i until the 16th century. The original general sense ‘framework for carrying something’ (which it shares with the etymologically related barrow) died out around 1600, but already by about 1000 the modern specific meaning ‘stand for a coffin’ had developed.
=> barrow, bear - bier (n.)
- Old English bær (West Saxon), ber (Anglian) "handbarrow, litter, bed," from West Germanic *bero (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German bara, Old Frisian bere, Middle Dutch bare, Dutch baar, German Bahre "bier"), from PIE root *bher- (1) "to carry; to bear children," and thus related to the Old English verb beran "to bear" (see bear (v.)), making a bier etymologically anything used for carrying, only later limited to funerary sense. Since c. 1600, spelling influenced by French bière, from Old French biere, from Frankish *bera, from the same Germanic root.
雙語例句
- 1. We decorated the seat of the bier awfully and solemnly.
- 我們把靈寢裝飾得莊嚴肅穆.
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- 2. And the bier was lifted once more, and they proceeded.
- 於是擔架又被抬了起來, 他們繼續向前走去.
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- 3. He began to wail like a man at a bier.
- 他像撫棺慟哭那樣嚎啕起來.
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- 4. King David himself walked behind bier.
- 大衛王也跟在棺後.
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- 5. For your cradle, your home, and your bier?
- 做你的搖籃 、 你的家園 、 和你的棺殮?
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