英语词汇sea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sea
词源	sea. The Old English poets used over 30 words for sea (and 27 for ship), as befits bards of an island nation. Sea, however, has lasted in the language. Sea is an earlier English word than ocean and is first recorded in Beowulf in the 10th century, its origins doubtful, though it may derive ultimately from the Greek huei, “it rains.” Today it often represents any large ex- panse of water more or less enclosed, but it originally had the same meaning as ocean.
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