bequeath

英 [b?'kwi?e] 美[b?'kwie]

GRE低頻詞TEM8擴展詞匯

第三人稱單數:?bequeaths;過去式:?bequeathed;過去分詞:?bequeathed;現在分詞:?bequeathing;

1. be + queath "say" (see quoth).
2. => say, speak => leave by will.

bequeath 遺贈

前綴be-, 強調。queath, 詞源同voice, 說。此處指臨終遺囑。

bequeath: bequeath: [OE] Etymologically, what you bequeath is what you ‘say’ you will leave someone in your will. The word comes from Old English becwethan, a derivative of cwethan ‘say’, whose past tense cw?th gives us quoth (it is no relation to quote, by the way). The original sense ‘say, utter’ died out in the 13th century, leaving the legal sense of ‘transferring by will’ (first recorded in 1066).

The noun derivative of Old English cwethan in compounds was -cwiss. Hence we can assume there was an Old English noun *becwiss, although none is recorded. The first we hear of it is at the beginning of the 14th century, when it had unaccountably had a t added to it, producing what we now know as bequest.
=> bequest, quoth
bequeath (v.): Old English becweean "to say, speak to, exhort, blame," also "leave by will;" from be- + cweean "to say," from Proto-Germanic *kwethan, from PIE *gwet- "to say, speak."

Original sense of "say, utter" died out 13c., leaving legal sense of "transfer by will." Closely related to bequest. "An old word kept alive in wills" [OED 1st ed.]. Old English bequeeere meant "interpreter, translator." Related: Bequeathed; bequeathing.

1. It is true that colonialism did not bequeath much to Africa.: 殖民主義給非洲確實沒有留下多少東西。

2. She said if the world did not act conclusively now, it would only bequeath the problem to future generations.: 她說如果人類現在不采取決定性的行動，那就只會把問題留給子孫后代。

3. It will be better to bequeath it to him after my death, in my will.: 我不如寫在遺囑里,等我死了留贈給他.

4. If you want my family so badly , I hereby bequeath them to you.: 我會雙手奉上的,如果你想要我的家人的話.

5. Most people bequeath their property to their spouses and children.: 大多數人把他們的財產遺留給他們的配偶和孩子們.