maggot的词源

英文词源

maggot

maggot: see mawkish

maggot (n.)

late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maðkr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic maþa "maggot"). Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.

中文词源

maggot：蛆，发疯的

来自中古英语magot,改编自maddock,虫，蛆，来自Proto-Germanic*mathon,来自PIE*math,虫，蛆虫，词源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小词后缀，词源同hillock.词义发疯的来自民间传说，认为脑子里面进虫或蛆或导致人发疯或反之亦然。

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