英语词汇farm的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	farm
词源	farm. The Anglo-Saxon feorm, which meant both food and hospitality, is the ultimate source of the word farm. By the Mid- dle Ages feorm had changed to ferme, which became the word for the food tenants paid their landlords as rent. Eventually the name for this rent was applied to the land that had produced it, the ferme or farm, as it was later called.
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