1. w <----> gu, -w- <---> -gu-.
2. war => werr- (Old High German werra "war") => guerr- "war".
3. guerr- "war" + -illa (diminutive suffix).
4. literally "little war".
5. guerrilla 原意是“小規模的戰爭”。在英語和西班牙語里，它都可以指對抗政府的一群非正式武裝人員，即“游擊隊”。但在英語里主要是作為形容詞，用在 guerrilla warfare（游擊戰）或 guerrilla marketing（游擊營銷）等短語中。需要注意的是，在西班牙語中，字母組合 ll 的發音與英語不同；而在英語里這個單詞的發音跟 gorilla（猩猩）是一樣的。
中文詞源
guerrilla 游擊隊
詞源同war,戰爭。-illa, 小詞后綴。
英文詞源
guerrilla (n.)
"fighter in an irregular, independent armed force," 1809, from Spanish guerrilla "body of skirmishers, skirmishing warfare," literally "little war," diminutive of guerra "war," from a Germanic source cognate with Old High German werra "strife, conflict, war," from Proto-Germanic *werra- (see war (n.)). Acquired by English during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), when bands of Spanish peasants and shepherds annoyed the occupying French. Purists failed in their attempt to keep this word restricted to "irregular warfare" and prevent it taking on the sense properly belonging to guerrillero "guerrilla fighter." Figurative use by 1861. As an adjective from 1811.
雙語例句
1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.
設立了安全區以防止游擊隊員的滲入。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A guerrilla war has lingered into its fourth decade.
一場游擊戰已經持續了30多年。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He dismissed guerrilla warfare as "adventurism."