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machine 机器
来自拉丁语machina,机器,引擎,装置,设施,诡计,来自PIE*magh,使能够,赋予力量,词源同might,magic,mechanic.
machine: [16] The ultimate source of both machine and mechanic [14] was makhos, a Greek word meaning ‘contrivance, means’, and related distantly to English may ‘be able’ and might. From it was derived mēkhané, whose Doric dialect form mākhaná passed into Latin as māchina ‘engine, contrivance’. English acquired the word via Old French machine. Meanwhile mēkhané had spawned an adjectival derivative mēkhanikós, which was in due course to find its way into English through Latin mēchanicus.=> mechanic
主流词源学认为,“machine”的演变路径为:希腊语 μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) → 拉丁语 machina → 古法语 machine → 英语 machine所以,这整个过程都没有涉及任何与中国相关的元素,也就是说这个词和“中国”毫无关系。
“Chine”是法语中对中国的专有名词,源自古印度梵语 “Cīna”(指代秦朝),经波斯语、阿拉伯语传入欧洲,最终在法语中固定为 “Chine”。
为什么machine拆开来ma Chine是法语我的中国意思?
“机器”这个名词在西方各国的文字:
“机器”的拉丁语machina,
“机器”的意大利语macchina,
“机器”的法语Machine,
“机器”的英语machine,
“机器”的德语Maschine。
好巧啊,为什么后缀都带着“china”“chine”的中国标记呢?
“永春芦柑2014”2019-09-17 22:15 接着说:“ma-china 。只看字面意思,ma只有妈的意思,那时候加个china,感觉只能代表Made in china了”。
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