hurricane的词源
英文词源
- hurricane
- hurricane: [16] European voyagers first encountered the swirling winds of the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and they borrowed a local word to name it – Carib huracan. This found its way into English via Spanish. (An early alternative form was furacano, which came from a Carib variant furacan.)
- hurricane (n.)
- 1550s, a partially deformed adoptation from Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural de las Indias," 1547-9), furacan (in the works of Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and historian of Spanish explorations), from an Arawakan (W. Indies) word. In Portuguese, it became furacão. For confusion of initial -f- and -h- in Spanish, see hacienda. The word is first in English in Richard Eden's "Decades of the New World":
These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones ...) they caule furacanes.
OED records 39 different spellings, mostly from the late 16c., including forcane, herrycano, harrycain, hurlecane. Modern form became frequent from 1650, established after 1688. Shakespeare uses hurricano ("King Lear," "Troilus and Cressida"), but in reference to waterspouts.
中文词源
hurricane（飓风）：玛雅神话中的雷暴与旋风之神胡拉坎
英语单词hurricane来自美洲玛雅神话中的创世神之一的雷暴与旋风之神Hurakan（胡拉坎）。在玛雅神话中，当世界还处于混沌未开之时，Hurakan朝 水面用力吹了一口气，吹开了水，露出了干燥的大地。后来，Hurakan又施展魔法，引来暴雨和洪水毁灭了人类。生活在加勒比海的土著人用Hurakan 称呼当地的强热带风暴，认为是这种风暴是Hurakan在施展魔法。西班牙殖民者来到加勒比海地区后，将Hurakan一词带入西班牙语，用来表示飓风。 该词进入英语后，拼写变成了hurricane。
hurricane：['hʌrɪk(ə)n; -keɪn] n.飓风，暴风
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：hurricane 词源，hurricane 含义。
来自西班牙语huracan,最终来自西印度群岛土著语Juracan,雷神，当他发怒的时候，会兴起狂风暴雨，即飓风。
来源于加勒比地区的方言huracan,经由西班牙语进入英语。
