英语词汇llama的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

llama. “¿Como se llama?” (“What is it called?”) Spanish in- vaders asked South American Indians when they first encoun- tered this unfamiliar animal. Not knowing what the Spanish were saying, the Indians repeated the Spanish word llama. The Spanish thought this was the name of the animal and dubbed it the llama, whose name therefore means “name.” So goes the old story about the origin of llama. The O.E.D. and others claim that it probably comes from “a Peruvian word.” See indri; kangaroo; luzon; nome; yucatan.

词汇	llama
词源	llama. “¿Como se llama?” (“What is it called?”) Spanish in- vaders asked South American Indians when they first encoun- tered this unfamiliar animal. Not knowing what the Spanish were saying, the Indians repeated the Spanish word llama. The Spanish thought this was the name of the animal and dubbed it the llama, whose name therefore means “name.” So goes the old story about the origin of llama. The O.E.D. and others claim that it probably comes from “a Peruvian word.” See indri; kangaroo; luzon; nome; yucatan.
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