moat的词源

英文词源

moat: moat: [14] The word moat originally meant a ‘mound’ or ‘embankment’ (this has since been hived off into the specialized form motte). The word was borrowed from Old French mote or motte ‘hill, mound’, whose ultimate source was probably a Gaulish mutt or mutta. The use of the word for the mound on which a castle keep was built led in Old French or Anglo-Norman to its reapplication to the ditch surrounding such a mound.
moat (n.): mid-14c., from Old French mote "mound, hillock, embankment; castle built on a hill" (12c.; Modern French motte), from Medieval Latin mota "mound, fortified height," of unknown origin, perhaps from Gaulish mutt, mutta. Sense shifted in Norman French from the castle mound to the ditch dug around it. As a verb, "to surround with a moat," early 15c.

来自古法语mote,城墙，护堤，来自拉丁语mota,城墙，小山，山上城堡，来自Proto-Germanic*muto,泥土，污泥，来自PIE*smut,污泥的，脏的，词源同smut,mud.后词义由城墙过渡到护城河。

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