wafer: [14] Wafer and waffle [18] are essentially the same word. Both come ultimately from a Low German term whose underlying etymological meaning was of a ‘honeycomb’- patterned cake or biscuit – a sense wafer has since lost. The ancestral form was wāfel, which seems to have come from the prehistoric Germanic base *wab-, *web- (source of English weave) and is probably related to German wabe ‘honeycomb’.
Old French borrowed Middle Low German wāfel as gaufre (which is where English got goffer ‘crimp’ [18] from). The Anglo-Norman version of this was wafre – whence English wafer. Waffle was borrowed direct into American English from Dutch wafel. (The verb waffle ‘speak verbosely’ [19], incidentally, is not the same word. It is a derivative of an earlier waff [17], used for the sounds a dog makes, which like woof was of imitative origin.) => goffer, waffle, weave, web
wafer (n.)
late 14c., "thin cake of paste, generally disk-shaped," from Anglo-French wafre, Old North French waufre "honeycomb, wafer" (Old French gaufre "wafer, waffle"), probably from Frankish *wafel or another Germanic source (compare Flemish wafer, altered from Middle Dutch wafel "honeycomb;" see waffle (n.)). Eucharistic bread first so called 1550s.
例文
1. Cut the fennel into wafer -thin slices.
アニスを薄い小片に切る。
2.She opened her mouth to receive the papery-thin wafer .
彼女は口を開けて薄い聖餅を受け取った。
3. Wafer , on the other hand , is the classic NBA enigma.
Wafer , 典型的なNBAのXファクターで、彼は驚くべき身体能力を持っている。
4.We really have not had a big enough sample to determine Wafer really is.
私たちには wafer の未来を決定するための十分なサンプルがありません。dd>
5.Single- wafer processes use higher pressures than the batch processes.