| 词汇 | blossom |
| 词源 | blossom; flower. In Anglo-Saxon times the word for flower was blossom, this changing after the Normans conquered En- gland in 1066 and their fleur became the English flower. How- ever, both words have the same common ancestor—the ancient Indo-European blo, which eventually yielded both blossom and flower. The Old English verb blow, to bloom, is still alive and well today in the compound forms full-blown (full flowered) and over-blown (faded and wilted), past the prime). |
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