英语词汇anchor的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

anchor. The “ch” in this common word, the cause of much trouble to beginning spellers, really has no place there. Anchor derives from the Latin ancora, meaning the same, which the Romans, in turn, borrowed from the Greek ankura. Some Latin writers, however, changed the ancora spelling to anchora, mis- takenly believing that the Greek word was properly spelled an- chura (because the k sound was often spelled ch in Greek words). When the word came into English in about 1400, En- glish writers adopted this incorrect Latin spelling and it became the basis for the word anchor.

词汇	anchor
词源	anchor. The “ch” in this common word, the cause of much trouble to beginning spellers, really has no place there. Anchor derives from the Latin ancora, meaning the same, which the Romans, in turn, borrowed from the Greek ankura. Some Latin writers, however, changed the ancora spelling to anchora, mis- takenly believing that the Greek word was properly spelled an- chura (because the k sound was often spelled ch in Greek words). When the word came into English in about 1400, En- glish writers adopted this incorrect Latin spelling and it became the basis for the word anchor.
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