http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parrot
perrot不仅仅是方言,还是中世纪法语,就是鹦鹉的意思。
后来废止不用。
Origin:
1515–25; apparently < Middle French P ( i ) errot, diminutive of Pierre (see parakeet), though a comparable sense of the French word is not known until the 18th century
c.1525, perhaps from dial. M.Fr. perrot, from var. of Pierre "Peter;" or perhaps a dial. form of perroquet (see parakeet). Replaced earlier popinjay. The verb "repeat without understanding" is first attested 1596. The Ger. naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in S.America
Origin:
early 16th century: probably from dialect French perrot, diminutive of the male given name Pierre 'Peter'. Compare with parakeet |