英语词汇brothel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	brothel
词源	brothel n. "bawdy house," 1590s, shortened from brothel-house, from brothel "prostitute" (late 15c.), earlier "vile, worthless person" of either sex (14c.), from Old English broðen past participle of breoðan "deteriorate, go to ruin," from Proto-Germanic breuthan "to be broken up," related to breutan "to break" (see brittle). In 16c. brothel-house was confused with unrelated bordel (see bordello) and the word shifted meaning from a person to a place. Entries linking to brothel brittle adj. "breaking easily and suddenly," late 14c., britel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English adjective brytel, related to brytan "to crush, pound, to break to pieces," from Proto-Germanic stem brutila- "brittle," from breutan "to break up" (source also of Old Norse brjota "to break," Old High German brodi "fragile"), from PIE bhreu- "to cut, break up" (see bruise (v.)). With -le, suffix forming adjectives with meaning "liable to." Related: Brittleness. bordello n. c. 1300, bordel "house of prostitution," from Old French bordel "small hut, cabin; brothel" (12c.), diminutive of borde "hut made of planks," from Frankish *bord "wooden board" or some other Germanic source related to board (n.1). The modern form (1590s) is a result of the French word being borrowed by Italian then passed back to French with a suffix and re-borrowed into English. updated on April 10, 2014
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