英语词汇canary的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	canary
词源	canary [M16th] Originally called a canary bird, the canary acquired its name from the Canary Islands, which is where the ancestors of our cage birds originated. The name of the islands comes from Latin canaria insula, which meant ‘island of dogs’ from canis ‘dog’, one of the islands having had a large population of dogs. Canis is also the source of canine [LME] and kennel [ME].
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