英语词汇gibberish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gibberish. Geber, or, more properly, Jabir ibn Hazyan (Jabir is the Arabic for Geber) was an eighth-century Arabian alchemist who wrote his formulas in seemingly unintelligible jargon and anagrams in order to avoid the death penalty for sorcery. For this reason Dr. Johnson, Grose, and other prominent word de- tectives believed that gibberish, “nonsense or words without meaning,” derives from his name. Geber could not have written all the 2,000 books attributed to him, but he was a prolific writ- er, respected enough for many medieval scientists to cite him as an authority, and for one 14th-century Spanish alchemist to go so far as to adopt his name. Today many authorities specu- late that gibberish is imitative of the sound of nonsense, an echoic word like “jabber,” “gabble,” “giggle,” and “gurgle,” and at most was only influenced by Geber’s name. Gibberish does not derive from the verb gibber, which it preceded in use, and has no roots in “gypsy jabber,” as has been claimed.

词汇	gibberish
词源	gibberish. Geber, or, more properly, Jabir ibn Hazyan (Jabir is the Arabic for Geber) was an eighth-century Arabian alchemist who wrote his formulas in seemingly unintelligible jargon and anagrams in order to avoid the death penalty for sorcery. For this reason Dr. Johnson, Grose, and other prominent word de- tectives believed that gibberish, “nonsense or words without meaning,” derives from his name. Geber could not have written all the 2,000 books attributed to him, but he was a prolific writ- er, respected enough for many medieval scientists to cite him as an authority, and for one 14th-century Spanish alchemist to go so far as to adopt his name. Today many authorities specu- late that gibberish is imitative of the sound of nonsense, an echoic word like “jabber,” “gabble,” “giggle,” and “gurgle,” and at most was only influenced by Geber’s name. Gibberish does not derive from the verb gibber, which it preceded in use, and has no roots in “gypsy jabber,” as has been claimed.
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