英语词汇ireland的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Ireland. The English, no slouches at ethnic slurs, dubbed the urinary organs Ireland as far back as the 16th century, the term recorded in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland’s wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Plan- ets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ire- land is perhaps the only word left in English that derives from the language of the Iberians, the first inhabitants of the British Isles—so the name of the country might well be the earliest surviving word spoken on British shores. The Iberians probably gave their tribal name to the island of Iveriu, which over the years was shortened to Eiri, this finally anglicized to Ireland. The Iberians, however, may also have named Britain itself. One cannot call either of these words “native” words, though, for the Iberians came to the British Isles from somewhere else in Europe. One scholar, taking Ireland or Erin back to its ultimate ancestor, says the name comes from the Indo-European ariyan, “noble.” Iran derives from the same source. See dog.

词汇	ireland
词源	Ireland. The English, no slouches at ethnic slurs, dubbed the urinary organs Ireland as far back as the 16th century, the term recorded in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland’s wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Plan- ets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ire- land is perhaps the only word left in English that derives from the language of the Iberians, the first inhabitants of the British Isles—so the name of the country might well be the earliest surviving word spoken on British shores. The Iberians probably gave their tribal name to the island of Iveriu, which over the years was shortened to Eiri, this finally anglicized to Ireland. The Iberians, however, may also have named Britain itself. One cannot call either of these words “native” words, though, for the Iberians came to the British Isles from somewhere else in Europe. One scholar, taking Ireland or Erin back to its ultimate ancestor, says the name comes from the Indo-European ariyan, “noble.” Iran derives from the same source. See dog.
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