weasand

n. 食管, 喉 [医] 气管

发音

/ˈwiːzənd/

词形变化

weasands 复数 weasands

别名

weason wesand weazand wassin wezzen wizen wizzen wosen weazon wesan wessand wezand wezon

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The oesophagus; the gullet.

    方言
  2. 2.

    The throat or windpipe.

    方言

    They're both so engrossed in this that they don't notice my landlady, who comes rushing out to learn what's going on. / "Why," her son explains, "he grabbed me by the weasand, it took me a long time to get my wind back."

词源

Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”).

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