英语词汇yellowhammer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	yellowhammer
词源	yellowhammer. This bird is named not for any hammer but from the earlier yellow-ham (Old English geolu, “yellow” plus hama “covering”), in reference to its bright yellow markings. The European yellow bunting, as it is also called, was once be- lieved to be cursed because it fluttered about the Cross and was stained by Christ’s blood, which colored its plumage and marked its eggs with red forever after. In times past children were encouraged to destroy its “cursed eggs.”
随便看	corsned cortisone corvette cosa nostra cosine cosmonaut cosmopolitan cossack costermonger cot cotangent cotterel-s salad cotton broker cotton-eyed cotton gin cotton-pickin’ cotton state cotton to cottonwood blossom couch potato cough cough up couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn couldn’t hit the ground if he she fell could talk a cat down out of a tree

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。