英语词汇mushroom的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mushroom. When Englishmen in the 15th century tried to pronounce the French word for this succulent fungus, mousse- ron, it came out “muscheron,” which over the years became “mushroom,” this pronunciation probably to some extent influ- enced by the common English words mush and room. All in all, they may have been better off with their native name for the edible fungus: toad’s hat. “Toad’s hat” is no longer heard, but toadstool is of course still the name for inedible, poisonous mushrooms. The French word mousseron, from which mush- room sprang up, is generally accepted as a derivative of mousse, “moss,” upon which mushrooms grow. Cities that sprang up rapidly, that seemed to spring up like mushrooms overnight, were called mushrooms in England as early as 1787. Within an- other century the name became a verb meaning to spread out, being first applied to bullets that expand and flatten, then to fires, and then to anything that grows rapidly. The fungus called a mushroom takes its name from the Latin mussirio meaning the same.

词汇	mushroom
词源	mushroom. When Englishmen in the 15th century tried to pronounce the French word for this succulent fungus, mousse- ron, it came out “muscheron,” which over the years became “mushroom,” this pronunciation probably to some extent influ- enced by the common English words mush and room. All in all, they may have been better off with their native name for the edible fungus: toad’s hat. “Toad’s hat” is no longer heard, but toadstool is of course still the name for inedible, poisonous mushrooms. The French word mousseron, from which mush- room sprang up, is generally accepted as a derivative of mousse, “moss,” upon which mushrooms grow. Cities that sprang up rapidly, that seemed to spring up like mushrooms overnight, were called mushrooms in England as early as 1787. Within an- other century the name became a verb meaning to spread out, being first applied to bullets that expand and flatten, then to fires, and then to anything that grows rapidly. The fungus called a mushroom takes its name from the Latin mussirio meaning the same.
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