Picture a farmer by hand: the fist opens and the grain flies out in every direction at once, landing far from where it started — and still growing there. That is the picture inside the Greek word this comes from, dia- (across, in all directions) plus speiro (to ). Hold that one image and the whole word opens up: the throwing itself, the seed once it has landed, and the wide ground it landed on.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives diaspora from Ancient Greek diaspora (dispersion), from diaspeiro (to scatter), itself dia- (across, in all directions) + speiro (to sow). The sowing picture is in the word's own parts, which is why the scattering, the scattered people and the far ground all sit comfortably under one image.
依據 Wiktionary，diaspora 來自古希臘文 diasporā（分散），源自 diaspeírō（撒散），由 dia-（往四面八方）加 speírō（播種）組成。播種這個畫面就寫在字的組成裡，所以「散開」「散出去的人」「散落的那片地方」三種意思才能放在同一張圖底下。
Wiktionary entry for diaspora, supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1001097147:24946)
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