lode的词源

英文词源

lode (n.)

original Middle English spelling of load (n.), and custodian of most of the original meaning of "way, course, carrying." Differentiation in sense took place 16c. Mining sense of "vein of metal ore" is from c. 1600, from notion of miners "following" it through the rock.

中文词源

lode：矿脉

来自load的原拼写形式，保存其原义引导，道路，航向，词源同lead.后该词用于指矿脉。

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