英语词汇dun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dun. “Send Dun after him,” creditors would say when a per- son was slow to pay his debts. According to the old story, they referred to Joe Dun, a London bailiff during the reign of Henry VIII who had proved himself particularly efficient in collect- ing from defrauding debtors. But most authorities trace dun to various words meaning din or thundering noise, sometimes connecting this with the drum that town criers pounded when they shouted out the names of debtors. Though only a few Celtic words survive in English, and most of these must be marked “doubtful,” philologists do think that a word similar to dun, for the dull brown color, was spoken by the Celts 2,000 years ago.

词汇	dun
词源	dun. “Send Dun after him,” creditors would say when a per- son was slow to pay his debts. According to the old story, they referred to Joe Dun, a London bailiff during the reign of Henry VIII who had proved himself particularly efficient in collect- ing from defrauding debtors. But most authorities trace dun to various words meaning din or thundering noise, sometimes connecting this with the drum that town criers pounded when they shouted out the names of debtors. Though only a few Celtic words survive in English, and most of these must be marked “doubtful,” philologists do think that a word similar to dun, for the dull brown color, was spoken by the Celts 2,000 years ago.
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