hawthorn: [OE] The hawthorn appears to be etymologically the ‘hedgethorn’. Its first element, haw, which in Old English was haga, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khag-, which also produced English hedge and possibly haggard (German hagedorn, Dutch haagdoorn, and Swedish hagtorn share the same ancestry). The name of the tree’s fruit, haw [OE], is presumably either a back-formation from hawthorn, or an abbreviation of some lost term such as *hawberry ‘hedgeberry’. Hawfinch dates from the 17th century. => haggard, hedge
hawthorn (n.)
Old English hagatorn, earlier h?gutorn "hawthorn, white thorn," from obsolete haw "hedge or encompassing fence" (see haw (n.)) + thorn. A common Germanic compound: Middle Dutch hagedorn, German hagedorn, Swedish hagtorn, Old Norse hagtorn.
雙語例句
1. Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.
小路上很多地方都長滿了山楂樹。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge.
他把自行車藏在山楂樹籬中。
來自辭典例句
3. Leaf-shoots were beginning to sprout on the hawthorn.
山楂樹上開始長出葉芽。
來自辭典例句
4. Indeed, she had worn quite a path beneath the hawthorn.