marrow的词源

英文词源

marrow (n.)

late 14c., from Old English mearg "marrow," earlier mærh, from Proto-Germanic *mazga- (cognates: Old Norse mergr, Old Saxon marg, Old Frisian merg, Middle Dutch march, Dutch merg, Old High German marg, German Mark "marrow"), from PIE *mozgo- "marrow" (cognates: Sanskrit majjan-, Avestan mazga- "marrow," Old Church Slavonic mozgu, Lithuanian smagenes "brain"). Figurative sense of "inmost or central part" is attested from c. 1400.

中文词源

marrow：骨髓，西葫芦

来自古英语mearg,来自Proto-Germanic*mazga,来自PIE*mozgo,骨髓。后引申词义精髓。西葫芦义词源不详。

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