词汇 | wong |
词源 | wong. Wong here is not a Chinese word, as might be expect- ed, but an Old English word meaning meadowland, often used as a commons, that derives from the German wang, “mountain slope.” First recorded in Beowulf, the word’s only use today is in British place names and designations of certain fields and com- mon lands. |
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