whimberry

发音

其它 /ˈʍɪmˌbɛɹi/
US /ˈʍɪmˌbɛɹi/

词形变化

whimberries 复数 whimberries

别名

whinberry wimberry winberry windberry

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).

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词源

From earlier winberry, apparently a variant of wineberry (Middle English winberie) with regular shortening of the first vowel before a consonant cluster; in wineberry, this was prevented or reversed due to analogy. The assimilation of /nb/ to /mb/ seen in some forms is to be expected (compare hemp < Old English henep). Other forms show the influence of unrelated words; the consonantism of forms with initial wh- is probably due to the influence of whin, while windberry clearly represents remodelling as wind + berry.

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