英语词汇saw的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

saw. The name for this tool perhaps derives ultimately from the Latin secare, “to cut,” its first use in England occurring be- fore a.d. 1000. Legend has it that the saw was invented when Perdix, the nephew of Daedalus, picked up the spine of a fish while walking on the seashore and imitated it by notching a long piece of iron on its edge. According to legend, Perdix also invented the compass. The jealous Daedalus tried to push him off a high tower, but the goddess Minerva, favoring ingenuity, changed him into a bird as he fell, and that bird was called the partridge after his name. See partridge.

词汇	saw
词源	saw. The name for this tool perhaps derives ultimately from the Latin secare, “to cut,” its first use in England occurring be- fore a.d. 1000. Legend has it that the saw was invented when Perdix, the nephew of Daedalus, picked up the spine of a fish while walking on the seashore and imitated it by notching a long piece of iron on its edge. According to legend, Perdix also invented the compass. The jealous Daedalus tried to push him off a high tower, but the goddess Minerva, favoring ingenuity, changed him into a bird as he fell, and that bird was called the partridge after his name. See partridge.
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