centipede centipede.
cent, hundred; Ped, foot. The ancient Chinese centipede is also called centipede.
Caterpillar caterpillar.
The etymology can be traced back to Latin"catta pilosa"。
cat, cat; Pilous, thick and messy hair.
Cat homonym hair, so this word corresponds to the Chinese caterpillar.
sow bugs.
Sow, refers to sow, female animal. And the tide insect is also called the rat woman in Chinese. Because it is in a damp place, it has a metaphor for disorder.
spider; cross fork; Tripod.
Derived from spin, which means textile. pin, the word has been said before, sound. The female is the female, and the female homonym thorn. From the thorn leads to the meaning of weaving.
Another example, vespider, wasp. Here spider means thorn.
Spider weaving, weaving.
Gecko gecko.
Derived from chacco, which is supposed to be a French word. French chī pronounced sh. The old English c can be pronounced with a g sound.
chac-co, the sound is like guarding the palace.
Wall Gecko.
Wall is the wall. This corresponds to the wall of the gecko.
House Lizard Gecko.
house, house. hou sound like a tiger. A tiger corresponding to a gecko.
Crocodile in English, very cleverly borrowed Chinese characters.
Hiding from the world, all the root books are wrong.
crocodile crocodile.
The word is so outlandish. I believe that anyone who learns English will feel this way.
How could it be related to the Chinese language?
I've also started to think that crocodile might be from an African indigenous source.
But at the sight of the crocodile tear, the crocodile tears, it is understood.
CRO is a variant of cry, crying. co, the sound is like crying. Tile is a variant of die. die, died.
cro-co-dile, i.e. crying and crying.
Crocodile, sound bad. Bad news is the news of the death of a loved one.
The crocodile's tears are often said in the West, which can also be used to prove that crocodiles are related to crying.
The turtle in English, borrowed from Chinese, is amazing.
Wonderful. I also found out today that I was looking at the tortoiseshell's English. Hawksbill turtles are sea turtles. Then I wondered if turtle had something to do with the cuckold, because the pronunciation was like a head.
So I looked up Wangba's English, and everything was clear.
bastard [ bɑ st d] illegitimate son; Hybridization.
That's a foul word.
ba-s-tard, ba eight yin, tar egg, that is, Chinese eight eggs. Old English t can be pronounced with a D sound.
This is obviously derived from the Chinese word for king, Badan.
The meaning is exactly the same.
tortoise turtle.
tor-to-se, tor sound steal, ト sound steal. That is, Chinese secretly.
Secretly with the tortoise, then of course we know.
turtle tortoise; Sea turtle.
tur-tle, sounds like secretly.
It's very interesting, isn't it?
serpent; Orochi.
ser-pent, sounds like a snake.
snake.
It sounds like a snake. I think that in the old English words starting with n, n can be pronounced with x, which can correspond to Chinese characters.