英语词汇taste的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	taste
词源	taste. To taste meant to touch before it meant to taste. In Merlin, or the Early History of King Arthur (ca. 1450) we find the following: “Merlin leide his heed in the damesels lappe, and she began to taste softly till he fell on slepe.” Taste is recorded in this sense as early as 1290, 50 years or so before the word began to take its present meaning—which may have been suggested by feeling food (tasting it) with the tongue.
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