path: [OE] Path is a West Germanic word of uncertain ultimate origin. Its cousins German pfad and Dutch pad point back to a prehistoric West Germanic ancestor *patha, but no one is too sure where this came from (one possibility is that it was borrowed somehow from Greek pátos ‘path’). The verb pad ‘tread, walk’ and the -pad of footpad come from the same source. => pad
path (n.)
Old English paþ, pæþ "path, track," from West Germanic *patha- (cognates: Old Frisian path, Middle Dutch pat, Dutch pad, Old High German pfad, German Pfad "path"), of uncertain origin. The original initial -p- in a Germanic word is an etymological puzzle. Don Ringe ("From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic," Oxford 2006) describes it as "An obvious loan from Iranian ..., clearly borrowed after Grimmâs Law had run its course." Watkins says the word is "probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-," from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go, pass" (source of Avestan patha "way;" see find (v.)), but this is too much of a stretch for OED and others. In Scotland and Northern England, commonly a steep ascent of a hill or in a road.
实用例句
1. Stewart was trying to clear a path for the stretcher.
斯图尔特在努力给担架开路。
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2. The path serves as an approach to the boat house.
这条小路通往船屋。
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3. I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path.
我险些被一个摇摇晃晃迎面而来的骑车人撞倒。
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4. She did not notice the man until he moved into her path.
直到那个男人拦住她的去路，她才注意到他。
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5. He made his way along a well-trodden path towards the shed.
