英语词汇kaput的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	kaput
词源	kaput. In the old French gambling game of piquet, capot meant not to win a single trick. Capot became the German ka- putt, with the same meaning, which over a long period of time was extended to mean “having been destroyed, wrecked, or in- capacitated,” just as some players would be after not winning a single trick in a game. By the end of the 19th century kaputt had entered English as kaput.
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