acorn的词源
英文词源
- acorn
- acorn: [OE] Acorn has no etymological connection with oak; its nearest linguistic relative in English is probably acre. The Old English word was æcern, which may well have derived from æcer ‘open land’ (the related Middle High German ackeran referred to beech mast as well as acorns, and Gothic akran developed more widely still, to mean simply ‘fruit’).
There are cognate words in other, non- Germanic, Indo-European languages, such as Russian yagoda ‘berry’ and Welsh aeron ‘fruits’. Left to develop on its own, æcern would have become modern English achern, but the accidental similarity of oak and corn have combined to reroute its pronunciation.
=> acre - acorn (n.)
- Old English æcern "nut," common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse akarn, Dutch aker, Low German ecker "acorn," German Ecker, Gothic akran "fruit"), originally the mast of any forest tree, and ultimately related (via notion of "fruit of the open or unenclosed land") to Old English æcer "open land," Gothic akrs "field," Old French aigrun "fruits and vegetables" (from Frankish or some other Germanic source); see acre.
The sense gradually restricted in Low German, Scandinavian, and English to the most important of the forest produce for feeding swine, the mast of the oak tree. Spelling changed 15c.-16c. by folk etymology association with oak (Old English ac) and corn (n.1).
中文词源
发音释义： ['ekɔrn] n. [植] 橡子；[林] 橡实
结构分析：acorn = acor（空旷的土地) + n（nut，坚果）→空旷林地的坚果→橡子
词源解释：acor←古英语acer（空旷的土地）
背景知识：acorn原本表示林地中任何一种坚果。由于中世纪时，欧洲人在空旷林地里养猪，橡子是猪所吃的主要食物，因此acorn后来专指“橡子”。直到现在，著名的西班牙黑毛猪在屠宰前5个月必须在纯天然的橡树林下，以树上跌落的橡子为食。
同源词：acre（英亩、土地）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：acorn 词源，acorn 含义。
词源略。俗词源：a同oak, 橡木。Corn,谷物，谷粒。
