jewel的词源

英文词源

jewel: jewel: [13] Originally, jewel meant ‘costly adornment made from precious stones or metals’ – a sense now largely restricted to the collective form jewellery [14]. The main modern sense ‘gem’ emerged towards the end of the 16th century. The word comes from Anglo-Norman juel, but exactly where that came from is not known for certain. It is generally assumed to be a derivative of jeu ‘game’, which came from Latin jocus (source of English jocular, joke, etc).
=> jeopardy, jocular, joke
jewel (n.): late 13c., "article of value used for adornment," from Anglo-French juel, Old French jouel "ornament, jewel" (12c.), perhaps from Medieval Latin jocale, from Latin jocus "pastime, sport," in Vulgar Latin "that which causes joy" (see joke (n.)). Another theory traces it to Latin gaudium, also with a notion of "rejoice" (see joy).

Sense of "precious stone" developed early 14c. Meaning "beloved person, admired woman" is late 14c. Colloquial family jewels "testicles" is from 1920s, but jewel as "testicle" dates to late 15c.

来自古法语jouel,装饰品，宝石，来自拉丁语jocus,娱乐，欢乐，词源同joke.字面意思即让人欢乐的，让人愉悦的，引申词义珠宝。

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来自古法语 jouel，与之相应的拉丁语直接进入英语的单词如jocular ['dʒɒkjʊlə] adj.爱开玩笑的；打趣的；滑稽的。拉丁词根元音间的字母c在进入法语时脱落，jewel中的-el后缀指小，jewel就是a little plaything，是让拥有者把玩、开心的“小玩意儿”。