英语词汇kangaroo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

kangaroo. The great English explorer Captain James Cook asked a native of the Australian Endeavor River tribe for the name of a strange marsupial Cook had spotted. The native an- swered, “kangaroo,” or “I don’t know.” Cook assumed that this was what the native called the animal, which is how kangaroo (or “I don’t know”) got in the dictionaries. At least that is the derivation several etymologists suggest, there being no better theory, though the story isn’t mentioned in any official ac- count of Cook’s voyages. The O.E.D. says the story “lacks confirmation” but can find no similar word in any Australian language. See also indri; kanga; llama; luzon; nome; yucatan.

词汇	kangaroo
词源	kangaroo. The great English explorer Captain James Cook asked a native of the Australian Endeavor River tribe for the name of a strange marsupial Cook had spotted. The native an- swered, “kangaroo,” or “I don’t know.” Cook assumed that this was what the native called the animal, which is how kangaroo (or “I don’t know”) got in the dictionaries. At least that is the derivation several etymologists suggest, there being no better theory, though the story isn’t mentioned in any official ac- count of Cook’s voyages. The O.E.D. says the story “lacks confirmation” but can find no similar word in any Australian language. See also indri; kanga; llama; luzon; nome; yucatan.
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