porridge的词源

英文词源

porridge: porridge: [16] Porridge is a 16th-century alteration of pottage [13]. This originally denoted a stew of vegetables and sometimes meat, boiled to submission, but it gradually came to be applied to a gruel, of varying consistency, made of cereals, pulses, etc, and it was the sort made from oatmeal that eventually took over the word porridge. Its transformation from pottage took place via an intermediate poddage (the t pronounced /d/ as in American English), and the change to r is mirrored in such forms as geraway and geroff for getaway and get off.

The same thing happened in the case of porringer ‘dish’ [16], which came from an earlier pottinger. Pottage itself was acquired from Old French potage, which etymologically meant simply ‘something from a pot’ (it was a derivative of pot ‘pot’). English reborrowed it in the 16th century as potage ‘soup’.
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porridge (n.): 1530s, porage "soup of meat and vegetables," alteration of pottage, perhaps from influence of Middle English porray, porreie "leek broth," from Old French poree "leek soup," from Vulgar Latin *porrata, from Latin porrum "leek." Spelling with -idge attested from c. 1600. Association with oatmeal is 1640s, first in Scottish.

改写自pottage,浓汤，肉汁，词源同pot.可能是受中古英语porray(韭菜汤)影响，来自拉丁语porrum,韭菜。引申词义面糊，粥。

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有个简单词叫pot（罐，壶），在此基础上加后缀-age，成pottage（浓汤；肉汁），字面义即“罐里装的东西”；而porridge正是它的变体，原指蔬菜羹，后来词义转变为由谷物、豆类做成的粥；发音上，原来的-t-变成了-r-，使得发音更加圆润。