英语词汇cobwebs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cobwebs; spiderweb. Dating back to at least 1300, cobweb is older than spiderweb by about 200 years. Cob is a form of cop, a Middle English word for spider. Strangely enough, although cobweb is of older ancestry than spiderweb, cob or cop was only rarely used as a separate word for spider. It is a back formation from cobweb, which means that we have to look elsewhere for the origin of cobweb. Possibly the answer may be found in an earlier use of cob or cop for “head.” Cobweb may have been sug- gested by people walking into spiderwebs and brushing their heads (cobs) in the webs.

词汇	cobwebs
词源	cobwebs; spiderweb. Dating back to at least 1300, cobweb is older than spiderweb by about 200 years. Cob is a form of cop, a Middle English word for spider. Strangely enough, although cobweb is of older ancestry than spiderweb, cob or cop was only rarely used as a separate word for spider. It is a back formation from cobweb, which means that we have to look elsewhere for the origin of cobweb. Possibly the answer may be found in an earlier use of cob or cop for “head.” Cobweb may have been sug- gested by people walking into spiderwebs and brushing their heads (cobs) in the webs.
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