shilling

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1. 音譯“先令”，它是英國的舊輔幣單位，一英鎊 = 20先令，1先令 = 12便士。1971年英國貨幣改革時被廢除。

shilling 先令

來自古英語 scilling,先令，貨幣單位，來自 Proto-Germanic*skillingoz,先令，可能來自 PIE*skel, 切，劈，割，詞源同 shale,scale.詞義由切引申為鑄造，最后用于貨幣單位，詞義演變比較 coin,shekel,pound.

shilling: shilling: [OE] Shilling has relatives in the other Germanic languages – German schilling, Dutch schelling, and Swedish and Danish skilling – which point back to a prehistoric Germanic *skillinggaz. Where this came from, however, is a mystery. Among suggestions are that it was formed from the base *skel- ‘divide, separate’ (source of English scale, shell, etc), and hence denotes etymologically a ‘division’ of a standard unit of weight or currency; or from the base *skell- ‘resound, ring’ (source of Dutch schel ‘shrill’ and German schelle ‘bell’).
shilling (n.): Old English scilling, a coin consisting of a varying number of pence (on the continent, a common scale was 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound), from Proto-Germanic *skillingoz- (cognates: Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Old Frisian, Old High German skilling, Old Norse skillingr, Dutch schelling, German Schilling, Gothic skilliggs).

Some etymologists trace this to the root *skell- "to resound, to ring," and others to the root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut" (perhaps via sense of "shield" from resemblance or as a device on coins; see shield (n.)). The ending may represent the diminutive suffix -ling, or Germanic -ing "fractional part" (compare farthing). Old Church Slavonic skulezi, Polish szel?g, Spanish escalin, French schelling, Italian scellino are loan-words from Germanic.

5. Every penny was hard earned, and every shilling was kept until I had to spend it.: 每個便士都那么難掙, 對于每個先令,都是到萬不得已時才花掉它.