英语词汇slave的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

slave; Slav. The word slave has nothing to do with Athens in the Periclean Age, when there were twice as many people in bondage as free, or with the “African trade” that created four centuries of suffering. Slave came into the language long after the former and long before the latter inhumanity, deriving from the name of a tribe living in what is now Poland and other areas of Eastern Europe. The name of these people meant “noble” or “illustrious” in their own tongue, but in about 6 a.d. they were conquered by German tribes from the west and forced to serve their conquerors or sold into bondage to the Romans. The Ro- mans called them Sclavus, which became the Medieval Latin sclavus, “a Slav captive,” this term of contempt applied to any bondsman or servile person. Sclavus became esclave in French and came into English as sclave, retaining the c until about the 16th century, when slave was first used. The word Slav, for the race of people in Eastern Europe, comes from the same source, the proud “noble” tribe whose name underwent a complete metamorphosis.

词汇	slave
词源	slave; Slav. The word slave has nothing to do with Athens in the Periclean Age, when there were twice as many people in bondage as free, or with the “African trade” that created four centuries of suffering. Slave came into the language long after the former and long before the latter inhumanity, deriving from the name of a tribe living in what is now Poland and other areas of Eastern Europe. The name of these people meant “noble” or “illustrious” in their own tongue, but in about 6 a.d. they were conquered by German tribes from the west and forced to serve their conquerors or sold into bondage to the Romans. The Ro- mans called them Sclavus, which became the Medieval Latin sclavus, “a Slav captive,” this term of contempt applied to any bondsman or servile person. Sclavus became esclave in French and came into English as sclave, retaining the c until about the 16th century, when slave was first used. The word Slav, for the race of people in Eastern Europe, comes from the same source, the proud “noble” tribe whose name underwent a complete metamorphosis.
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