2020-10-27
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด K - Kidnap - hijack
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Kidnap = ‘KID-nap’
ออกเสียง hijack = ‘HAHY-jak’
Dictionary.com
Hijack and terrorism
The nation marked 17 years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed thousands of lives and changed America for good. This year marked the first time that the majority of school children in American were not yet born when the terrorist attack happened, and many schools devoted lessons to covering what to kids is a historical event. Searches for the meaning of hijack climbed 668% on the 11th, while searches for the meaning of terrorism were up 262%.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
'Nap' in 'Kidnap'
Meaning "to arrest" or "to seize unexpectedly," both nab and nap originated in 17th-century slang—in particular, criminal slang.
Nab, which is likely an alteration of nap, is still commonly used today in its original sense.
Brazilian police nabbed the suspected kingpin of a gang that stole 37 million from online bank accounts.
— Andrew Noyes, The Washington Internet Daily, 1 Apr. 2005
Nap, on the other hand, fell into disuse by the 20th century, surviving only in the word kidnap. The kid in that word refers to a child, and that sense of kid also began as slang.
Kidnap originally referred to the practice in the 1600s and 1700s of stealing impoverished children from large cities in Great Britain and taking them to British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, where they were sold into servitude. The word was formed in the late 17th century possibly as a back-formation of kidnapper, which is attested a few years earlier.
Napper itself was also used at the time as a slang word for "thief."
Etymologists aren't exactly sure where nap, meaning "to seize," originated, though they do suspect it may have Scandinavian origins. They do know, however, that nap referring to a short sleep taken during the day is unrelated: it comes from Old English hnappian, "to sleep," and has Germanic roots.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Hijack
Hijack can sometimes be spelled highjack, but despite the perceived connection of high with flying, the word originally referred to the seizing of any kind of goods in transit, whether by car, boat, or plane. It later came to refer to forcing a pilot to fly to an unintended destination, also called skyjacking.
Hijack has influenced other words that refer to a specified thing taken by threat or force, such as carjacking. In the electronic age it has come to mean taking over and controlling something (such as a medium) that is not yours:
Hackers hijacked the website belonging to Dean International, the flight school that owns the planes in Tuesday’s midair crash over the Everglades that killed four people.
— Monique O. Madan, The Miami Herald, 19 July 2018
Hijacking
This word surged in use during the 1970s when airplanes became a frequent target.
(The more specific skyjack never fully caught on.)
Who commandeered planes in the '70s? Among others, Cubans, Syrians, Soviets, South Vietnamese, Palestinians, and Americans. Motivations ranged from religion to politics to cash.
As the New York Times News Service reported,
"Sooner or later, an airline hijacking is going to result in a real disaster - hundreds dead in a crash, or a bloody shootout in the sky, or even the reality of something as bizarre as last weekend's threat to crash a hijacked Southern Airline's plane into the Oak Ridge atomic installation." -Tom Wicker, November 14, 1972
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
kid′nap·pee′, kid′nap·ee′ (kĭd′nă-pē′) n.
kid′nap′ n.
kid′nap′per, kid′nap′er n.
Word History:
Kidnapper seems to have originated among those who perpetrate this crime. We know this because kid and napper, the two parts of the compound, were slang of the sort that criminals used.
Kid, which still has an informal air, was considered low slang when kidnapper was formed, and napper is obsolete slang for a thief, coming from the verb nap, "to steal." Nap is possibly a variant of nab, which also still has a slangy ring. In the second half of the 1600s, when the word kidnapper begins to appear in English, kidnappers plied their trade to secure laborers for plantations in colonies such as the ones in North America. The term later took on the broader sense that it has today. The verb kidnap begins to be attested a bit later than kidnapper and is possibly a back-formation from kidnapper—that is, the suffix -er was removed from kidnapper to create a new verb kidnap.
