英语词汇apron的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	apron
词源	apron [ME] What we now call an apron was known in the Middle Ages as a naperon, from Old French nape or nappe ‘tablecloth’ (also the source of napkin [LME] and its shortening nappy [E20th]). Somewhere along the line the initial ‘n’ got lost, as people heard ‘a naperon’ and misinterpreted this as ‘an apron’. A similar process of ‘wrong division’ took place with words such as *adder.
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