One way to hold this word: putting something in now so that something grows later. A hand works compost into the bed, and nothing looks different that evening — the change shows up weeks afterwards, in what comes up. Every use keeps both halves of that picture: something goes in, and growth follows.
可以想成：現在把一樣東西放進去，之後才長得出來。手把堆肥翻進土裡，當天晚上看起來什麼都沒變；改變要等幾個星期，長在冒出來的東西上。這個字的每一種用法都保留了這兩段：先有東西被放進去，然後才有新的東西長出來。
From the word’s history
Recorded as fertile plus -ize, taken in through French fertiliser. The literal build is 'make able to bear', which is exactly the two-part picture: put in what is needed, and growth becomes possible.
來源記載是 fertile（能長出東西的）加上字尾 -ize，經法文 fertiliser 進入英文。字面組合就是「使某樣東西能長得出來」，正好是那個兩段式的畫面：先補上需要的，長才變成可能。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1138437708:14329)
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。