Hun的词源

英文词源

Hun: Old English, person from a tribe from central Asia that overran Europe in the 4c. and 5c., from Medieval Latin Hunni, apparently ultimately from Turkic Hun-yü, the name of a tribe (they were known in China as Han or Hiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, which caused a scandal.

来自古英语Hun,中亚地区游牧部落，来自土耳其语Hun-yu,即中国汉朝时北方少数民族匈奴，在公元4世纪时横扫欧洲，被成为野蛮的代名词。在一战时期该词用来指德国佬。

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