booty的词源

英文词源

booty: booty: [15] Booty has no connection with boots. It came into English as butin (it did not finally lose its n until the 18th century), a borrowing from Old French butin, but Old French had got it from Middle Low German būte ‘exchange’ (whence German beute and Dutch buit ‘loot’), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic source *būtiōn.
=> filibuster, freebooter
booty (n.): "plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.

原指奖赏，词源不详。词义受boot（益处）影响。词义由奖赏到战利品可参照英法16，17世纪官方文件letter of marque, 私掠许可证。当时英法政府为发展海上力量，打击对方，鼓励民船海盗船可以对过往商船进行合法抢劫，所掠财物部分作为奖赏。

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源自中世纪低地德语bute／buite‘distribution’（分配物），一进入英语即被用来指“战利品”或“赃物”，其词形因受意为“利益”的盎格鲁撤克逊单词boot的影响而演变为booty的。这个boot不同于意为“靴”的boot，除了用于短语to boot（而且，除此而外），现已废弃不用。