finch英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.
A woman. UK,dated,slang

— "Well, she could have put it across me for that matter if Dodger, who'd seen her up there, didn't happen to call round to do with the business," admitted George simply. "All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another. But I suppose there's something you go by."

动词 v.

To hunt for finches, to go finching.

词形变化

finches plural finches present,singular,third-person finching participle,present finched participle,past finched past

词汇关系

衍生词

Abert's finch Baltimore finch Bengalese finch blue finch bramble finch brambling finch brushfinch bullfinch canary finch Cassin finch Cassin's finch chaffinch cherry finch citril finch Cocos finch cold-finch copper finch Corsican finch cowfinch crimson-browed finch crimson finch crimson-winged finch cuckoo-finch cut-throat finch Darwin's finch desert finch double-barred finch estrilid finch European finch fallowfinch fallow finch finchbill finchery finchlike fire finch firefinch Galapagos finch goldfinch gold-naped finch golden-naped finch Gough finch Gouldian finch Gould's finch Lady Gouldian finch greenfinch ground finch hawfinch house finch koa finch masked finch melba finch mountain finch oriole finch owl finch painted finch parrotfinch pinefinch Przewalski's finch purple finch rainbow finch red-browed finch redfinch rockfinch rosefinch rosy finch scarlet finch sharp-beaked ground finch snowfinch society finch spectacled finch spice finch star finch stormfinch thistlefinch trumpeter finch vampire ground finch warbler-finch weaver finch widow finch yellow-rumped finch zebra finch

词源

词源 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).

词源 2

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).