英语词汇leprechaun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	leprechaun
词源	leprechaun. These Irish elves, who figure in many a legend, take their name, first recorded in 1604, from the Old Irish lu, meaning “small,” and the Old Irish corp, “body.” The last part of the word, however, was borrowed from the Latin corpus for body, this an excellent example of church Latin’s influence on the Irish language.
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