butcher的词源
英文词源
- butcher
- butcher: [13] Butcher comes via Anglo-Norman boucher from Old French bouchier, a derivative of boc ‘male goat’ (this was probably borrowed from a Celtic word which came ultimately from the same Indo-European base as produced English buck). The original sense of the word was thus ‘dealer in goat’s flesh’.
=> buck - butcher (v.)
- 1560s, from butcher (n.). Related: Butchered; butchering. Re-nouned 1640s as butcherer.
- butcher (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frankish *bukk or some other Germanic source (see buck (n.1)) or Celtic *bukkos "he-goat." Figurative sense of "brutal murderer" is attested from 1520s. Butcher-knife attested from 18c. Related: Butcherly. Old English had flæscmangere "butcher" ('flesh-monger').
中文词源
英语单词butcher来自法语boucher，字面意思就是“屠宰山羊的人”，其中的bouc表示“公山羊”。英语单词buck（雄鹿）就来源于bouc，原本表示“雄山羊”，后来才表示“雄鹿”。在中世纪时，屠夫的地位很高，据说13世纪时有一位法国公主就嫁给了一位屠夫。
butcher：['bʊtʃə] n.屠夫，肉贩vt.屠杀
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来自buck, 雄鹿, 公羊。插入字母t. 卖羊肉的人。
据传，13世纪法国有一位女王与一位屠夫结了婚，使屠宰业在当时成为极受人尊敬的行业。英语中意为“屠夫”、“肉贩”的butcher 一词系源自法语bochier‘one who slaughters and sells he-goats’，其词根boc意为he- goat（雄山羊），因此英语butcher原先的含义也是“屠宰山羊的人”或“卖山羊肉的人”，以后才扩大词义的。
