词汇 | sandalwood |
词源 | sandalwood [E16th] The name of this Indian tree and its fragrant timber and oil has no connection with sandals. It is based on čandana, a word in Sanskrit, the ancient language of India, which passed into Latin as sandalum. Our word sandal [LME] came instead from Greek sandalon ‘wooden shoe’. |
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