英语词汇bury the hatchet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

There was peace among the nations. Longfellow wrote this in Hiawatha (1855), but the expression bury the hatchet, “to settle all differences, to let bygones be by- gones,” goes back much further. Recorded as early as 1794, it stems from an old Indian custom. Crude stone axes, or hatch- ets, were long the most important weapon of northeastern American Indians. Such ceremony was attached to these toma- hawks that when peace was made between two tribes, it was customary to take the tomahawks of both chiefs and bury them. When hostilities broke out again, the hatchets were dug up again as a declaration of war. The earliest record of this prac- tice is found in the letters of American author Samuel Sewall, dated 1680: “Meeting with the Sachem they came to an agree- ment and buried two axes in the ground . . . which ceremony to them is more significant and binding than all the Articles of Peace, the hatchet being a principal weapon.” Also a humorous euphemism for sexual intercourse.

词汇	bury the hatchet
词源	bury the hatchet. Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club . . . There was peace among the nations. Longfellow wrote this in Hiawatha (1855), but the expression bury the hatchet, “to settle all differences, to let bygones be by- gones,” goes back much further. Recorded as early as 1794, it stems from an old Indian custom. Crude stone axes, or hatch- ets, were long the most important weapon of northeastern American Indians. Such ceremony was attached to these toma- hawks that when peace was made between two tribes, it was customary to take the tomahawks of both chiefs and bury them. When hostilities broke out again, the hatchets were dug up again as a declaration of war. The earliest record of this prac- tice is found in the letters of American author Samuel Sewall, dated 1680: “Meeting with the Sachem they came to an agree- ment and buried two axes in the ground . . . which ceremony to them is more significant and binding than all the Articles of Peace, the hatchet being a principal weapon.” Also a humorous euphemism for sexual intercourse.
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