Namibia的词源
英文词源
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- crank
- crank: [OE] There appears to be a link between the words crank, cringe, and crinkle. They share the meaning element ‘bending’ or ‘curling up’ (which later developed metaphorically into ‘becoming weak or sick’, as in the related German krank ‘ill’), and probably all came from a prehistoric Germanic base *krank-. In Old English the word crank appeared only in the compound crancstoef, the name for a type of implement used by weavers; it is not recorded in isolation until the mid-15th century, when it appears in a Latin-English dictionary as a translation of Latin haustrum ‘winch’.
The adjective cranky [18] is no doubt related, but quite how closely is not clear. It may derive from an obsolete thieves’ slang term crank meaning ‘person feigning sickness to gain money’, which may have connections with German krank. Modern English crank ‘cranky person’ is a backformation from the adjective, coined in American English in the 19th century.
=> cringe, crinkle
中文词源
纳米比亚位于非洲西南部，是世界上最后一个实现独立的殖民地。1890年被德国占领， 命名为“西南非洲”。1968年6月联合国大会将“西南非洲”更名为Namibia (纳米比亚)。 1990年独立后使用此国名。它得名于境内的纳米比沙漠（Namib)。Namib来自纳马语来， 意为“一无所有的地方”。
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