-t

短语

别名

-et

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Used to form the past tense and/or past participle of some verbs.

    leap + -t → leapt

    keep + -t → kept

    dream + -t → dreamt

    sleep + -t → slept

  2. 1.

    An excrescent ending appended to words suffixed with -s.

    against, amidst, amongst, betwixt, whilst, twicet

  3. 1.

    Used to form nouns from verbs of action; equivalent to -th.

    arise + -t → arist

    bow + -t → bout

    drive + -t → drift

    see + -t → sight

    thieve + -t → theft

    thrive + -t → thrift

  4. 1.

    Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives (compare -ate, -ize), frequently having a causative force, or modified from an existing verb into a frequentative verb.

    习语

    yeet (adress with ye), grunt, fidget, haunt (via French), elt (via Old Norse), belt (“to sing loudly”) (perhaps via West Frisian), jolt

  5. 1.

    Added to the end of words ending in ⟨d⟩, representing an AAVE pronunciation as /t/ rather than /d/, now generally with intensifying force.

    俚语 非裔美国英语

    period + -t → periodt

    good + -t → goodt

    Lord + -t → Lordt

词源

From Middle English -te (past tense ending), -t (past participle ending), from Old English -te, -de (first and third person past tense ending), -t, -ed, -od (past participle ending), from Proto-Germanic *-id- (past tense stem ending of class 1 weak verbs) and *-idaz (past participle ending of class 1 weak verbs). In some verbs, like lose/lost, the ‐t‐/‐t arose during the Middle English period from the devoicing of the earlier ‐d‐/‐d. This devoicing typically occurred after the suffix was syncopated from ‐ede and ‐ed, forcing the voiced alveolar stop directly against the stem’s final consonant. See -ed.

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