英语词汇chit的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

chit. Chit, for “an I.O.U.” or “a voucher of money owed for food or drink,” derives from the Hindustani citthi, “a short note.” In British colonial India, Hindu civil servants seem to have been in the habit of writing an inordinate amount of cit- this about every conceivable matter. The British found this practice time-consuming and inefficient, criticizing it so often that the word citthi eventually became the easier to pronounce chitty and then chit in their vocabulary. They used chit-coolies as a term for Indian messengers, and soon they used chit for the notes they signed for drinks and food at their clubs. The chit that means a young, often insignificant person or a child (“a chit of a girl”) goes back much further in time. Found in Wycliffe, it refers to the young of an animal and probably de- rives from kitten or kit.

词汇	chit
词源	chit. Chit, for “an I.O.U.” or “a voucher of money owed for food or drink,” derives from the Hindustani citthi, “a short note.” In British colonial India, Hindu civil servants seem to have been in the habit of writing an inordinate amount of cit- this about every conceivable matter. The British found this practice time-consuming and inefficient, criticizing it so often that the word citthi eventually became the easier to pronounce chitty and then chit in their vocabulary. They used chit-coolies as a term for Indian messengers, and soon they used chit for the notes they signed for drinks and food at their clubs. The chit that means a young, often insignificant person or a child (“a chit of a girl”) goes back much further in time. Found in Wycliffe, it refers to the young of an animal and probably de- rives from kitten or kit.
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