英语词汇gorilla的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gorilla. Tough, hairy men aren’t named after the gorilla, as most people believe. Such men actually gave their name to the ape. Originally, Gorillai seems to have been the name of a hairy African tribe known to the Greeks in about 500 b.c. This word came into English as gorilla, which first meant a hairy aboriginal person. Then in 1847 the American mission- ary and naturalist Dr. Thomas S. Savage observed the largest of the anthropoid apes in West Africa, naming them gorillas in an article published in the Boston Journal of Natural Histo- ry. For other instances of animals named after men see booby, brumby, capuchin, cayuse, chow, flamingo, gibbon, guppy, halcyon, husky, maverick, molly, petrels, shark, and shrimp.

词汇	gorilla
词源	gorilla. Tough, hairy men aren’t named after the gorilla, as most people believe. Such men actually gave their name to the ape. Originally, Gorillai seems to have been the name of a hairy African tribe known to the Greeks in about 500 b.c. This word came into English as gorilla, which first meant a hairy aboriginal person. Then in 1847 the American mission- ary and naturalist Dr. Thomas S. Savage observed the largest of the anthropoid apes in West Africa, naming them gorillas in an article published in the Boston Journal of Natural Histo- ry. For other instances of animals named after men see booby, brumby, capuchin, cayuse, chow, flamingo, gibbon, guppy, halcyon, husky, maverick, molly, petrels, shark, and shrimp.
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