helmet: [15] A helmet is literally a ‘little protective hat’. The word was borrowed from Old French helmet, a diminutive form of helme ‘helmet’. This in turn was acquired by Old French from Germanic *khelmaz (source of English helm [OE]), which goes back ultimately to Indo-European *kel- ‘hide, cover’ (source of a wide range of English words, including apocalypse, cell, cellar, conceal, hall, hell, and occult). => hell, helm
helmet (n.)
mid-15c., perhaps a diminutive of Old English helm "protection, covering; crown, helmet" (see helm (n.2)). But Barnhart says from Middle French helmet (Modern French heaume), diminutive of helme "helmet," from the same Germanic source as helm (n.2). "Middle English Dictionary" points to both without making a choice. "Old English helm never became an active term in the standard vocabulary of English." [Barnhart]
雙語例句
1. A man in a crash helmet was mounting a motorbike.
一位戴頭盔的男子正跨上摩托車。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He pulled on a battered old crash helmet with a scratched visor.
他戴上了一頂破舊的防護頭盔，上面的面罩已有劃痕。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Miners wore a helmet as a guard against falling rocks.
礦工頭戴鋼盔,防護落下的巖石.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. He donned work clothes and a wicker helmet.
他穿上工作服,戴上柳條帽.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. Through the basement window I saw him strap on his pink cycling helmet.