英语词汇wheatear的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wheatear
词源	wheatear. The name of this Old World thrush originally had nothing to do with “wheat” or “ears.” First recorded in 1591, wheatear comes from the Anglo-Saxon hwitt, “white,” and eeres, “ass,” in reference to its white rump. Wheat later replaced hwett in its name because the bird “came when the wheat was yearly reaped.”
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