英语词汇bead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bead
词源	bead. Bead derives from the Middle English word bede, which meant “a prayer” and in turn came from the Old English gebel, meaning the same. Since prayers were often said on a string of small round balls (now called a rosary), the name for “prayer” came to be applied to the balls themselves, the spelling changing to bead over the years.
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