capercaillie
英 [,k?p?'ke?l?]
美[,k?p?'keli]
- n. 北歐產(chǎn)雷鳥之一種
中文詞源
capercaillie 松雞
來自蘇格蘭方言capull coille，叢林馬。capull, 馬，見cavalcade, 馬隊。coille, 見hill, 山林。后指松雞。
英文詞源
- capercaillie
- capercaillie: [16] The name of the capercaillie, a very large species of grouse, means literally ‘horse of the woods’ in Scots Gaelic. The Gaelic form of the word is capalcoille, a compound formed from capall ‘horse’ (probably borrowed from Latin caballus ‘horse’, source of English cavalier) and coille ‘woods’.
=> cavalier
