The American Heritage Dictionary takes the techn root back beyond Greek to Indo-European teks meaning to weave, linking it to the root of the word textile.
《美国传统词典》(American Heritage Dictionary)把techn的根源追溯到比希腊语更早的印欧语系的teks,它的意思是编织,与单词textile(纺织品)的根源相关。
According to both the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary, in ancient Greek the bivalve shells you might find at the beach were called ostrakon.
根据《牛津英语词典》和《美国传统英语词典》的词条,在古希腊,那些您可能在沙滩上看到的双壳贝被称为ostrakon。
The deeper root of this Greek meaning is (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) Indo-European where da meant “to divide.”
根据《美国传统词典》的说法,这个古希腊单词可以进一步追溯到印欧语——da的意思是“分开、分配”。
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