maelstrom的词源

英文词源

maelstrom (n.): 1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstrøm (1673), from older Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally "grinding-stream," from malen "to grind" (see meal) + stroom "stream" (see stream (n.)). The name was used by Dutch cartographers (for example Mercator, 1595). OED says perhaps originally from Færoic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c. 1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."

来自荷兰语Maelstrom,像磨坊一样的水流，漩涡，来自maalen,磨，词源同mill,stroom,水流，词源同stream.原指挪威西部海域传说中的大漩涡，后引申词义混乱。

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