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moccasin的意思

moccasin

英 ['mɒkəsɪn] 美 ['mɑkəsn]
  • n. 软帮鞋;[服装] 鹿皮鞋;一种生长在北美的大毒蛇

moccasin

中文词源


moccasin 莫卡辛软皮鞋

来自北美印第安土著语。

英文词源


moccasin (n.)
"North American Indian shoe" (made of deerskin or soft leather), 1610s, from an Algonquian language of Virginia, probably Powhatan makasin "shoe," from Central Atlantic Coast Algonquian *mockasin, similar to Southern New England Algonquian *makkusin, Munsee Delaware mahkusin, Ojibwa makizin. The venomous snake of southern U.S. (1784) is perhaps a different word, but Bright regards them as identical.