英语词汇heckle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	heckle
词源	heckle v. early 14c., "to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle;" from heckle (n.) or from related Middle Dutch hekelen. Figurative meaning "to question severely in a bid to uncover weakness" is from late 18c. "Long applied in Scotland to the public questioning of parliamentary candidates" [OED]. Presumably from a metaphor of rough treatment, but also compare hatchel "to harass" (1800), which may be a variant of hazel, the name of the plant that furnished switches for whippings. Related: Heckled; heckling. heckle n. "flax comb," c. 1300, hechel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English hecel or a cognate Germanic word, from Proto-Germanic hakila- (source also of Middle High German hechel, Middle Dutch hekel), from PIE root keg- "hook, tooth." Entries linking to heckle* hazel n. Old English hæsl, hæsel, from Proto-Germanic hasalaz (source also of Old Norse hasl, Middle Dutch hasel, German hasel), from PIE koselo- "hazel" (source also of Latin corulus, Old Irish coll "hazel"). Shakespeare ("Romeo and Juliet," 1592) was first to use it (in print) in the sense of "reddish-brown color of eyes" (in reference to the color of ripe hazel-nuts), when Mercutio accuses Benvolio: Thou wilt quarrell with a man for cracking Nuts, hauing no reason, but because thou hast hasell eyes. keg- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "hook, tooth." It forms all or part of: hacek; hack (v.1) "to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows;" hake; Hakenkreuz; heckle; hook; hooker. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Russian kogot "claw;" Old English hoc "hook, angle." hazel (n.)keg-hackle (n.)heckler (n.)tease (v.) updated on October 14, 2021
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