jewelry的词源

英文词源

jewelry (n.)

late 14c., juelrye "precious ornaments, jewel work," from Old French juelerye, from jouel (see jewel). In modern use it can be analyzed as jewel + -ery or jeweler + -y (1). Also jewellery.

The longer is the commercial & popular form, the shorter the rhetorical & poetic. [Fowler]

中文词源

jewelry：珠宝

来自jewel,珠宝，-ry,集合名词后缀。

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