英文词源
- wassail
- wassail: [13] Wassail was borrowed from Old Norse ves heill, literally ‘be healthy’. This was a toast or salutation given when about to drink (much like English good health!). Ves was the imperative singular of vesa or vera ‘be’ (a relative of English was and were) and heill is essentially the same word as English hale and whole, and related to healthy.
=> hale, healthy, whole - wassail
- mid-12c., from Old Norse ves heill "be healthy," a salutation, from ves, imperative of vesa "to be" (see was) + heill "healthy," from Proto-Germanic *haila- (see health). Use as a drinking phrase appears to have arisen among Danes in England and spread to native inhabitants.
A similar formation appears in Old English wes þu hal, but this is not recorded as a drinking salutation. Sense extended c. 1300 to "liquor in which healths were drunk," especially spiced ale used in Christmas Eve celebrations. Meaning "a carousal, reveling" first attested c. 1600. Wassailing "custom of going caroling house to house at Christmas time" is recorded from 1742.
中文词源
wassail：饮酒狂欢
来自古诺斯语ves heill,祝健康，ves-,是，词源同was,heill,健康，词源同healthy.字面意思即喝酒有祝健康，再来一杯。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：wassail 词源，wassail 含义。
wassail：(旧时欢宴上的)祝酒词，举杯祝(某人)健康
丹麦人（维京海盗时代）占据了不列颠东北部分很大一片土地后，他们的语言和风俗等传播到了整个英格兰。这个单词可以理解为was+hail致敬（与health有关），而was实际暗含祈使语气，即敬酒时祝福对方be healthy！
wassail：饮酒狂欢
来自古诺斯语 ves heill,祝健康，ves-,是，词源同 was,heill,健康，词源同 healthy.字面意思即 喝酒有祝健康，再来一杯。