英语词汇mooring的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mooring
词源	mooring n. early 15c., "action or process of making a ship secure in a particular place by means of anchors, cables, etc.," verbal noun from moor (v.). From 1775 as "place where a vessel can be moored" (compare moorings). Entries linking to mooring moor v. "to fasten (a ship) in a particular location by or as by cables, anchors, etc.," late 15c., probably related to Old English mærels "mooring rope," via unrecorded mærian "to moor," or possibly borrowed from Middle Low German moren or Middle Dutch maren "to moor," from West Germanic mairojan. Related: Moored, mooring. French amarrer is from Dutch. moorings n. 1744, "ropes, etc., by which a floating thing is confined or made fast," from mooring. Figurative sense of "that to which anything is fastened or by which it is held" is by 1851. updated on February 20, 2019
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mooring n.