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Plum Prune Latin English German Pr Pl Peculiar

正面 7801.plum
英 [plʌm]美 [plʌm]

背面
释义:
n. 李子;梅子;洋李;紫红色adj. 人所希望的;有利的;上等的n. (Plum)人名;(德、西)普卢姆;(英)普拉姆
例句:
1. Laura landed a plum job with a smart art gallery.劳拉在一家时尚画廊找到了份美差。

1. prune <=====> plum (同源词,Change of pr- to pl- is peculiar to Germanic.)2. 区别:plume, plum.
plum 李子,梅子来自古英语plume,李子,李子树,来自Proto-Germanic*prumon,李子,来自拉丁语prunum, 李子,词源同prune.字母r,l 音变,比较peregrinate,pilgrim.
plumplum: [OE] Plum and prune ‘dried plum’ are ultimately the same word. Their common ancestor was Greek proumnon, a word which originated somewhere in Asia Minor. This was later contracted to prounon, and borrowed into Latin as prōnum. Its plural prōna came to be regarded in post-classical times as a singular, and this is where English gets prune from, but prōna was also borrowed into prehistoric Germanic, and many of its descendants here have had their r changed to l (the two are close together phonetically) – hence German pflaume, Swedish plommon, and English plum.=> pruneplum (n.)Old English plume "plum, plum tree," from an early Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch prume, Dutch pruim, Old High German pfluma, pfruma, German Pflaume) from Vulgar Latin *pruna, from Latin prunum "plum," from Greek prounon, later form of proumnon, of unknown origin, perhaps from an Asiatic language (Phrygian?). Also see prune (n.). Change of pr- to pl- is peculiar to Germanic. The vowel shortened in early modern English. Meaning "something desirable" is first recorded 1780, probably in reference to the sugar-rich bits of a plum pudding, etc."

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