heron: [OE] Heron may well have originated in imitation of the bird’s cry, for its source was probably Indo-European *qriq- (whence also Russian krichat’ ‘call out, shout’). From this was descended prehistoric Germanic *khaigaron (source of Swedish häger ‘heron’), which was borrowed into Old French as hairon. English took it over as heron or hern (the latter now a memory surviving in personal names and placenames, such as Earnshaw).
heron (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French hairon (12c.), earlier hairo (11c., Modern French héron), from Frankish *haigiro or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hraigran (cognates: Old High German heigaro "heron," German Reiher, Dutch reiger, Old Norse hegri), from PIE *qriq-, perhaps imitative of its cry (compare Old Church Slavonic kriku "cry, scream," Lithuanian kryksti "to shriek"). Old English cognate hraga did not survive into Middle English.
双语例句
1. Heron is a private company and is not quoted on the Stock Market.
赫伦公司是一家私营公司，没有在股票交易市场挂牌。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The heron flapped slowly off across the lake.
那白鹭振翅向湖对岸慢慢飞去.
来自辞典例句
3. Heron also translated much of the Greek geometrical algebra into arithmetic and algebraic processes.
Heoom又把不少希腊的几何代数法翻译成算术和代数步骤.
来自辞典例句
4. ELAINE HERON : When I came to Belfast I went to Lockerbie College.
伊莱恩·赫伦: 我来到贝尔法斯特时去了洛克比大学.
来自互联网
5. Heronheron by family friendship of many generations status close Xia Mujun.