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19. Dez. 2019 · fiddle. (n.) "stringed musical instrument, violin," late 14c., fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele "fiddle," which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel "a fiddle;" all of uncertain origin.
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fiddle 的起源與含義: "絃樂器，小提琴"，14世紀晚期， fedele， fydyll， fidel，早期爲...
- Fiddle
fiddle の意味: フィドル;...
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fiddle (n.) "strumento musicale a corda, violino," fine del...
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Fiddle has been relegated to colloquial usage by its more...
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"split, divided into parts," from Latin -fidus, related to...
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From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe...
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪd(ə)l/(General American) enPR: fĭdʹl, IPA(key): /ˈfɪdl̩/, [ˈfɪɾl̩]Hyphenation: fid‧dleRhymes: -ɪdəlfiddle (plural fiddles) 1. Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those...
fiddle (third-person singular simple present fiddles, present participle fiddling, simple past and past participle fiddled) 1. To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style. 1.1. to fiddle while Rome burns 1.1. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes[…], 3rd edition, London: […]...
Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214), The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 206, page 187.“fiddle, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.“fiddle, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.“fiddle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.The etymology of fiddle is uncertain: it probably derives from the Latin fidula, which is the early word for violin, or it may be natively Germanic. [9] The name appears to be related to Icelandic Fiðla and also Old English fiðele. [10] . A native Germanic ancestor of fiddle might even be the ancestor of the early Romance form of violin. [11]
Fiddle, medieval European bowed, stringed musical instrument. The medieval fiddle, a forerunner of the violin, emerged in 10th-century Europe, possibly deriving from the lira, a Byzantine version of the rabāb, an Arab bowed instrument.
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) indicates that fiddle the verb (first OED citation from 1377) is derived from fiddle the noun (first OED citation "c1275", second from 1377). If that is correct, then the -le cannot have been added in English as the frequentative verb suffix.
21. Mai 2024 · 1.5 Noun. 1.6 References. English [ edit] Alternative forms [ edit] (interjection): fiddlestick ( dated) Etymology [ edit] Circa 1600, England. From fiddlestick, from the late Middle English fidillstyk (“violin bow”) . Pronunciation [ edit] ( UK) IPA ( key): /ˈfɪdl̩.stɪks/ Audio (Southern England) Interjection [ edit] fiddlesticks.
to act dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage: She managed to fiddle a free trip to America. fiddle the books He had been fiddling the books for years. fiddle the accounts An employee had fiddled accounts and helped himself to customers ' money.
