英语词汇throstle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	throstle
词源	throstle n. "thrush," Old English þrostle "thrush," from Proto-Germanic thrust- (source also of Old Saxon throsla, Old High German droscala, German Drossel "thrush"), altered from (perhaps a diminutive of) thurstaz (see thrush (n.1)). Entries linking to throstle thrush n.1 type of songbird, Old English þræsce, variant of þrysce, from Proto-Germanic thruskjon (source also of Old Norse þröstr, Norwegian trost, Old High German drosca), from PIE trozdo- (source also of Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas "thrush," Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy "starling," Old Church Slavonic drozgu, Russian drozdu). An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. [Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush," Dec. 31, 1900] updated on January 29, 2014
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throstle n.