Everest的词源
英文词源
- Everest (n.)
- mountain between Nepal and Tibet, named 1865 for Sir George Everest (1790-1866), surveyor-general of India. The Tibetan name is Chomolangma "mother goddess of the world." Everest's surname is said in name-books to be a variant of Devereux, a Norman name, from Evereux/Evreux in France, which from a Celtic tribal name (Latin Eburovices) based on the Ebura (modern Eure) river.
中文词源
珠穆朗玛峰诸多名字之一，来自19世纪英国驻印度测绘总长George Everest的名字。
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