英语词汇dumbledore的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dumbledore
词源	dumbledore n. 1787, a dialect word in Hampshire, Cornwall, etc. for "a bumblebee." Compare bumble-bee, also dore. The first element likely is imitative (dumble-, bumble-, humble- drumble- all seem to have been used interchangeably). Entries linking to dumbledore bumble-bee n. also bumblebee, "large, hairy type of bee," 1520s, replacing Middle English humbul-be (altered by association with Middle English bombeln "to boom, buzz," late 14c.), which probably originally was echoic. dore n. Middle English, also dorre, "buzzing or whirring insect," from Old English dora, a word of unknown origin, perhaps imitative. updated on October 17, 2018
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