英语词汇rotten row的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Rotten Row. The London street, originally a royal route, may have originally been called La Route du Roi, the Royal Road, with the French expression corrupted into Rotten Row. But its name could also derive from rotteran, “to muster,” for soldiers once mustered there, or from the Anglo-Saxon rot, “pleasant, cheerful,” or even from rotten, referring to the soft material the road was made of. Another of many possibilities is the Norman Rattan Row, or “roundabout way,” the route over which corpses were carried in olden times to avoid main streets and traffic.

词汇	rotten row
词源	Rotten Row. The London street, originally a royal route, may have originally been called La Route du Roi, the Royal Road, with the French expression corrupted into Rotten Row. But its name could also derive from rotteran, “to muster,” for soldiers once mustered there, or from the Anglo-Saxon rot, “pleasant, cheerful,” or even from rotten, referring to the soft material the road was made of. Another of many possibilities is the Norman Rattan Row, or “roundabout way,” the route over which corpses were carried in olden times to avoid main streets and traffic.
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