feather-brained的词源

英文词源

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redundant

redundant: [17] Etymologically, something that is redundant ‘overflows’ because there is too much of it. The word comes from the present participle of Latin redundāre ‘flow back, overflow’ (source also of English redound [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and undāre ‘rise in waves, surge’, a derivative of unda ‘wave’ (source of English undulate).
=> redound, surround, undulate

中文词源

feather-brained：浑头浑脑的

来自feather俚语义，傻鸟。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：feather-brained 词源，feather-brained 含义。