英语词汇rook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rook. Farmers in England called this member of the crow tribe (Corvus frugilegus) a hrooc as early as the eighth century, probably in imitation of its raucous cry. The bird has long been regarded as a pest and was distinguished from the crow, as this old seed-planting rhyme shows: “One for the rook / One for the crow / One for the weather / And one to grow.” The chess piece called the rook has an entirely different origin, deriving from a Persian word whose original sense is unknown. The thieving bird, however, does give us the word to rook, or cheat, which has been used since Shakespeare’s time, just as gull has been.

词汇	rook
词源	rook. Farmers in England called this member of the crow tribe (Corvus frugilegus) a hrooc as early as the eighth century, probably in imitation of its raucous cry. The bird has long been regarded as a pest and was distinguished from the crow, as this old seed-planting rhyme shows: “One for the rook / One for the crow / One for the weather / And one to grow.” The chess piece called the rook has an entirely different origin, deriving from a Persian word whose original sense is unknown. The thieving bird, however, does give us the word to rook, or cheat, which has been used since Shakespeare’s time, just as gull has been.
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