英语词汇lumber的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lumber. Our story begins with the Longobardi, or long beards, a Germanic tribe that in about 568 invaded Italy, where their name became Lombardi in Italian, and settled the region now called Lombardy. The merchants of Lombardy, who gradu- ally migrated to the area from all parts of Italy, eventually won fame or infamy as bankers, moneylenders, and pawnbrokers. In time, the moneymen and their lombards, or pawnshops, ra- diated out from Milan and other parts of Lombardy to greener pastures. But Lombard came to be pronounced Lumbard, or Lumber in English. London’s Lombard Street had its Lombard shops (pawnshops), and these had their Lombard rooms, stor- age rooms—all pronounced “lumber,” too. Over the years the Lumber rooms on the street grew filled with unredeemed pledges on loans—large crates, cumbersome furniture, and other odds and ends that are still called lumber today. At this point, however, the word lumber was put to a new use. There are several explanations for the change, which is recorded as early as 1662. One is that American homesteaders in clearing their land for farming, left many discarded trees lying around, this clutter, or lumber, later cut or split into the wooden planks we know as lumber today. The word lumber for “to walk clum- sily or heavily” does not derive from the Longbeards, coming directly from the Middle English verb lomeren meaning the same thing. See lombard street.

词汇	lumber
词源	lumber. Our story begins with the Longobardi, or long beards, a Germanic tribe that in about 568 invaded Italy, where their name became Lombardi in Italian, and settled the region now called Lombardy. The merchants of Lombardy, who gradu- ally migrated to the area from all parts of Italy, eventually won fame or infamy as bankers, moneylenders, and pawnbrokers. In time, the moneymen and their lombards, or pawnshops, ra- diated out from Milan and other parts of Lombardy to greener pastures. But Lombard came to be pronounced Lumbard, or Lumber in English. London’s Lombard Street had its Lombard shops (pawnshops), and these had their Lombard rooms, stor- age rooms—all pronounced “lumber,” too. Over the years the Lumber rooms on the street grew filled with unredeemed pledges on loans—large crates, cumbersome furniture, and other odds and ends that are still called lumber today. At this point, however, the word lumber was put to a new use. There are several explanations for the change, which is recorded as early as 1662. One is that American homesteaders in clearing their land for farming, left many discarded trees lying around, this clutter, or lumber, later cut or split into the wooden planks we know as lumber today. The word lumber for “to walk clum- sily or heavily” does not derive from the Longbeards, coming directly from the Middle English verb lomeren meaning the same thing. See lombard street.
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