heath: [OE] Heath goes back to Indo-European *kait-, denoting ‘open, unploughed country’. Its Germanic descendant *khaithiz produced German and Dutch heide and English heath. One of the commonest plants of such habitats is the heather, and this was accordingly named in prehistoric Germanic *khaithjō, a derivative of the same base as produced *khaithiz, which in modern English has become heath ‘plant of the heather family’. (The word heather [14] itself, incidentally, does not appear to be related. It comes from a Scottish or Northern Middle English hadder or hathir, and its modern English form is due to association with heath.)
heath (n.)
Old English hæð "untilled land, tract of wasteland," especially flat, shrubby, desolate land;" earlier "heather, plants and shrubs found on heaths," influenced by cognate Old Norse heiðr "heath, moor," both from Proto-Germanic *haithiz (cognates: Old Saxon hetha, Old High German heida "heather," Dutch heide "heath," Gothic haiþi "field"), from PIE *kaito "forest, uncultivated land" (cognates: Old Irish ciad, Welsh coed, Breton coet "wood, forest").
雙語例句
1. He decided to cut across the Heath, through Greenwich Park.
他決定抄近路走格林尼治公園穿過希思區。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Heath's appeal against the sentence was later successful.
希思對判決不服提出上訴，後來勝訴了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a Heath Robinson contraption
複雜而不實用的裝置
來自《權威詞典》
4. Few kinds of plants grow in the heath.
少有植物可在荒地上生長.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. In this paper, by using Heath - H ( ? ) del - mappings we give a characterizationof C - Semi - stratifiable spacs, C - Nagata spaces, KC - semi - stratifiable spacesand K - semi - stratifiable spaces.