英语词汇houyhnhnms的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

houyhnhnms. These are the intelligent breed of horses that Jonathan Swift created in Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift said he coined their name from the characteristic whinny of a horse as it sounded to him. The talking horses, endowed with rea- son, ruled over the brutish Yahoos, another word coined by Swift in the book. Gulliver’s Travels also gives us brobdingnagi- an, for any immense thing, after the giants Gulliver encounters in the country of Brobdingnag, and lilliputian, after Lilliput, a country of tiny people. Houyhnhnms is pronounced “whinims.”

词汇	houyhnhnms
词源	houyhnhnms. These are the intelligent breed of horses that Jonathan Swift created in Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift said he coined their name from the characteristic whinny of a horse as it sounded to him. The talking horses, endowed with rea- son, ruled over the brutish Yahoos, another word coined by Swift in the book. Gulliver’s Travels also gives us brobdingnagi- an, for any immense thing, after the giants Gulliver encounters in the country of Brobdingnag, and lilliputian, after Lilliput, a country of tiny people. Houyhnhnms is pronounced “whinims.”
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