英语词汇good的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	good
词源	good. Good, first recorded circa a.d. 800, derives from the Old English god, which is akin to earlier words basically mean- ing “suitable,” so that, according to the O.E.D. “the original sense of good would be ‘fitting’ . . .” Thus, unlike bad, good has its roots in “the suitable, the fitting, the natural.”
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