thigh

英 [θaɪ] 美[θaɪ]

复数: thighs;

1. t (teacher) + high => 我们的美女老师很高，因为她是一个长腿(高腿)美女。

thigh 大腿

来自古英语 theoh,大腿，来自 Proto-Germanic*theuham,大腿，腿部多肉部分，来自 PIE*teuk, 来自 PIE*teue,鼓起，膨胀，词源同 thumb,tumid.

thigh: thigh: [OE] The thigh is etymologically the ‘plump’ part of the leg. Together with Dutch dij, it evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *theukham. This went back to Indo-European *teuk-, *tauk-, *tuk-, which also produced Lithuanian táukas ‘fat’. And these in turn were extensions of the base *tu- ‘swell’, source of English thousand, thumb, tumour, etc.
=> thousand, thumb, tumour
thigh (n.): Old English þeoh, þeh, from Proto-Germanic *theuham (cognates: Old Frisian thiach, Old Dutch thio, Dutch dij, Old Norse þjo, Old High German dioh), probably literally "the thick or fat part of the leg," from PIE *teuk- from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (cognates: Lithuanian taukas, Old Church Slavonic tuku, Russian tuku "fat of animals;" Lithuanian tukti "to become fat;" Avestan tuma "fat;" Greek tylos "callus, lump," tymbos "burial mound, grave, tomb;" Old Irish ton "rump;" Latin tumere "to swell," tumulus "raised heap of earth," tumidus "swollen;"tumor "a swelling;" Middle Irish tomm "a small hill," Welsh tom "mound").

1. The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.: 单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。

3. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.: 子弹嵌进了中士的腿里，使其股骨碎裂。

4. He fell back, blood welling from a gash in his thigh.: 他向后倒去，鲜血从他大腿上的一个口子里涌了出来。

5. Hamstrings are supporting muscles at the back of the thigh.: 腿筋是位于大腿后侧起支撑作用的肌肉。