walnut的词源
英文词源
- walnut
- walnut: [OE] A walnut is etymologically a ‘foreign nut’. Its name alludes to the fact that the nut was regarded by the Germanic peoples as an exotic import from southern Europe, land of Romans and Celts (their own native nut was the hazel). Prehistoric Germanic *walkhaz originally meant ‘Celtic’ (it was borrowed from Latin Volcae, the name of a Celtic people), but it soon broadened out to include anyone or anything foreign (including the Romans) within its scope.
Its original Celtic connotations survive, however, in Welsh and Walloon (the name of a people of Gaulish origin), both of which go back to *walkhaz. English shares the formation walnut with its Germanic neighbours – German walnuss, Dutch walnoot, Swedish valnöt, and Danish valnød.
=> walloon, welsh - walnut (n.)
- Old English walhnutu "nut of the walnut tree," literally "foreign nut," from wealh "foreign" (see Welsh) + hnutu (see nut). Compare Old Norse valhnot, Middle Low German walnut, Middle Dutch walnote, Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, So called because it was introduced from Gaul and Italy, distinguishing it from the native hazel nut. Compare the Late Latin name for it, nux Gallica, literally "Gaulish nut." Applied to the tree itself from 1600 (earlier walnut tree, c. 1400).
中文词源
来自古英语walhnutu,外国坚果，walh-,外国的，外来的，词源同Welsh,Cornwall,nut,坚果。以此命名，以与本国坚果相区别。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：walnut 词源，walnut 含义。
核桃原产亚洲及欧洲部分地区，英国人对这种外国的硬壳果并不熟悉。盎格鲁一撒克逊人把它叫做wealhhnutu；wealh意思是“外国的”；hnutu即“nut”；walnut即由wealhhnutu变化来的，其字面含义是“外国的硬壳果”。
walnut：胡桃（木）；胡桃树；核桃
在古英语中作wealhhnutu，相当于Welsh nut，Welsh意为“外国的”，而Welsh nut则有“外国坚果”之意。英国一度把外国进口的东西都冠之以Welsh，这种东西最早是从中东传入英国的，所以英国人以Welsh nut称之，以别于chestnut和hazelnut等。以后人们把Welsh nut跟wall一词相联系，终于使它演变为walnut这一形式。这是俗词源一个较为典型的例子。（参见Welsh）
来自古英语 walhnutu,外国坚果，来自 walh-,外国的，外来的，词源同 Welsh,Cornwall,nut,坚 果。以此命名，以与本国坚果相区别。
英语单词walnut (核桃）和Wales来源相同，由wal-(外国的、非日耳曼的）和nut (坚果）构成，字面意思就是“外国坚果”核桃之所以得名walnut,是因为它来自意大利和高卢地区。英国人为了将它与本土所产的榛子区分开，就称其为walnut (外国坚果）。
