cotton的词源
英文词源
- cotton
- cotton: [14] As with knowledge of the plant, its name cotton came to Europe from the Middle East. It originated in Arabic qutn, which passed via Spanish into the other languages of Europe. English acquired it via Old French coton. The verbal idiom cotton (on) to ‘come to understand’ developed in the 20th century from an earlier ‘harmonize, agree’. This in turn has been traced back to a still earlier ‘prosper’, which seems to have originated in the 16th century with the notion of the successful raising of the nap on cotton cloth.
- cotton (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French coton (12c.), ultimately (via Provençal, Italian, or Old Spanish) from Arabic qutn, a word perhaps of Egyptian origin. Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732. Also ultimately from the Arabic word, Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Provençal coton, Italian cotone, Spanish algodon, Portuguese algodão. Cotton gin is recorded from 1794 (see gin (n.2)).
- cotton (v.)
- "to get on with" someone (usually with to), 1560s, perhaps from Welsh cytuno "consent, agree." But perhaps also a metaphor from cloth finishing and thus from cotton (n.). Related: Cottoned; cottoning.
中文词源
来自阿拉伯语。
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历史上有过许许多多种类的布。很早以前，古埃及人把他们织的一种布叫作al-quton；西班牙人吸收了这个词，把它写作algodont和coton；法国人吸收了coton，意指“棉布”。1400年，这个词进入了中古英语，后来又加进了字母“t”，成了今天的cotton.这个词在现代英语中主要作“棉花”讲，但也仍可作“棉布”解。
