mussel的词源

英文词源

mussel: mussel: see muscle
mussel (n.): Old English muscle, musscel "shellfish, mussel," from Late Latin muscula (source of Old French musle, Modern French moule, Middle Dutch mosscele, Dutch mossel, Old High German muscula, German Muschel), from Latin musculus "mussel," literally "little mouse," also "muscle;" like muscle, derived from mus "mouse" on the perceived similarity of size and shape. The modern spelling, distinguishing the word from muscle, first recorded c. 1600, not fully established until 1870s.

来自拉丁语mus,老鼠，词源同mouse,musk,-el,小词后缀。即小老鼠，因这种贝类形似小老鼠而得名。

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