• n. 綁腿；長統(tǒng)橡膠靴

來自法語，原指膝蓋或腳踝，詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*wer, 彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源versus, wrist. 字母g, w音變，字母r脫落。

gaiter

gaiter: [18] Etymologically as well as semantically, gaiter is an ‘a(chǎn)nkle covering’. It comes from French guêtre ‘gaiter’, which may well have been formed from Germanic *wirst-. This denoted ‘twist, turn’, and it has several modern derivatives which mean essentially ‘twisting joint’: German rist, for example, which has now migrated anatomically to the ‘instep’ and the ‘back of the hand’, originally signified ‘a(chǎn)nkle, wrist’, and although English wrist now refers only to the hand/arm joint, it was formerly used dialectally for the ‘a(chǎn)nkle’.
=> wrist

gaiter (n.)

"leather cover for the ankle," 1775, from French guêtre "belonging to peasant attire," of unknown origin; perhaps from Middle French *guestre, from Frankish *wrist "instep," from Proto-Germanic *wirstiz (source also of German Rist "instep;" see wrist (n.)). Related: Gaiters; gaitered (1760).