lumber的词源

英文词源

lumber

lumber: [14] Swedish has a dialectal verb loma ‘move heavily’, which is the only clue we have to the antecedents of the otherwise mysterious English verb lumber. The noun, too, which first appears in the 16th century, is difficult to account for. In the absence of any other convincing candidates, it is presumed to have been derived from the verb (its earliest recorded sense is ‘useless or inconvenient articles’, plausibly close to the verb; ‘cut timber’ did not emerge until the 17th century, in North America).

lumber (n.)

"timber sawn into rough planks," 1660s, American English (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1550s), probably from lumber (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian immigrants famous as pawnbrokers and money-lenders in England (see Lombard). Lumbar, Lumbard were old alternative forms of Lombard in English. The evolution of sense then would be because a lumber-house ("pawn shop") naturally accumulates odds and ends of furniture.

Live Lumber, soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]

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LUMBER HOUSE. A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]

lumber (v.)

"to move clumsily," c. 1300, lomere, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish loma "move slowly, walk heavily," Old Norse lami "lame"), ultimately cognate with lame (adj.). Related: Lumbered; lumbering.

中文词源

lumber（杂物）：伦巴第典当铺中成堆的典当物

在欧洲，古日耳曼人的分支伦巴第人（Lombard）特别精于银行业和典当业。在伦巴第王国灭亡后，一部分伦巴第人迁移至英国，一些伦巴第人汇聚在伦敦的“伦巴第人大街”，创建了众多银行和典当铺。典当铺里经常堆满了各种典当物。由于伦巴第人在古英语中被拼写为Lumbard，因此英国人将伦巴第人开的典当铺中存放典当物的房间称为lumber house，将其中的成堆典当物称为lumber。后来，lumber一词被用来表示各种废弃家具或无用的杂物。另外，lumber还可以表示锯好的木柴，不过此意来源已不可考。

lumber：['lʌmbə] n.杂物，废物，木柴vt.伐木，乱堆vi.伐木，喧哗地往前走，笨重地行动，缓慢地移动

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lumber：吃力的走，木头，大件物品

来自lame,跛的，-er,表反复，引申词义吃力的走。木材义词源不详，可能来自timber,字母t,l音变，比较language,tongue,并由木材引申词义大件物品等。