英语词汇umpire的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

umpire. Umpire is a later form of noumpere, which meant the same: “one who decides disputes between parties.” Noumpere, in turn, ultimately derives from the Old French nonper (non, “not” plus per, “equal”). Thus, the idea behind the word is that the umpire is not equal to either party in a dispute, is the im- partial third person. Noumpere, the accepted form up until the 15th century, began to be pronounced umpire because people transferred the n in the word to the indefinite article: noumpere becoming an oumpere and finally an umpire. In the same way a napron became an apron, a nadder became an adder, and an ewt became a newt.

词汇	umpire
词源	umpire. Umpire is a later form of noumpere, which meant the same: “one who decides disputes between parties.” Noumpere, in turn, ultimately derives from the Old French nonper (non, “not” plus per, “equal”). Thus, the idea behind the word is that the umpire is not equal to either party in a dispute, is the im- partial third person. Noumpere, the accepted form up until the 15th century, began to be pronounced umpire because people transferred the n in the word to the indefinite article: noumpere becoming an oumpere and finally an umpire. In the same way a napron became an apron, a nadder became an adder, and an ewt became a newt.
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