英语词汇newt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	newt
词源	newt [LME] Like nickname, the name of the newt is an example of the phenomenon known as ‘wrong division’ or ‘metanalysis’, whereby people came to attach the last letter of one word to the beginning of the next. Originally the animal was an ewt. Ewt* was an Old English term for a newt, as was eft. See also adder, apron.
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