Godspeed

来自Big Physics
Safin讨论 | 贡献2022年4月28日 (四) 23:05的版本 (建立内容为“Category:etymology == wiktionary == [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Godspeed ref] From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English Middle English] phrase…”的新页面)
(差异) ←上一版本 | 最后版本 (差异) | 下一版本→ (差异)

wiktionary

ref

From Middle English phrase God spede(“may God cause you to succeed”), from God(“God”) + spede, singular subjunctive of spedan(“to prosper”), from Old English spēdan, from spēd(“success”) (see English speed).


etymonline

ref

godspeed (interj.)

also God speed, by late 14c., "(I wish that) God (may) grant you success," from God + speed (v.) in its old sense of "prosper, grow rich, succeed." Specifically as a salutation by mid-15c. Also in Middle English as an adverb, "quickly, speedily" (early 14c.); the then-identically spelled God and good seem to be mixed up in this word. From late 13c. as a surname. He may bidde god me spede is found in a text from c. 1300.