baby的词源
英文词源
- baby
- baby: [14] Like mama and papa, baby and the contemporaneous babe are probably imitative of the burbling noises made by an infant that has not yet learned to talk. In Old English, the term for what we would now call a ‘baby’ was child, and it seems only to have been from about the 11th century that child began to extend its range to the slightly more mature age which it now covers. Then when the word baby came into the language, it was used synonymously with this developed sense of child, and only gradually came to refer to infants not yet capable of speech or walking.
- baby (n.)
- late 14c., babi, diminutive of baban (see babe + -y (3)). Meaning "childish adult person" is from c. 1600. Meaning "youngest of a group" is from 1897. As a term of endearment for one's lover it is attested perhaps as early as 1839, certainly by 1901; its popularity perhaps boosted by baby vamp "a popular girl," student slang from c. 1922. As an adjective, by 1750.
Baby food is from 1833. Baby blues for "blue eyes" recorded by 1892 (the phrase also was used for "postpartum depression" 1950s-60s). To empty the baby out with the bath (water) is first recorded 1909 in G.B. Shaw (compare German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten). Baby's breath (noted for sweet smell, which also was supposed to attract cats) as a type of flower is from 1897. French bébé (19c.) is from English. - baby (v.)
- "to treat like a baby," 1742, from baby (n.). Related: Babied; babying.
中文词源
拟声词，模仿婴儿啼哭。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：baby 词源，baby 含义。
baby 一词来自babe，原为babe的指小词，一度指“玩具娃娃”。babe则是模仿婴儿哭声baba构成的儿语拟声词，中世纪英语作baban，曾作标准词用，意指“婴儿”，而今多见于诗歌语言，其原先地位已为后来者baby所取代。出自要儿叫声的拟声词还有mama／mamma，papa／poppa，babble（牙牙学语）等词。另有一词mammal（哺乳动物）若究其根源可以说亦属此类。 mammal源于拉丁语mamma（乳房），而mamma乃是儿语拟声词。
baby：婴孩，(某人)关心的事
来源于中古英语,如同mama和papa一样,baby和babe可能来自于模拟幼儿咿呀学语的声音。
