wassail

英 ['w?se?l; 'w?s(?)l; 'w?-] 美['wɑsel]

第三人稱單數:?wassails;過去式:?wassailed;過去分詞:?wassailed;現在分詞:?wassailing;名詞:?wassailer;

wassail 飲酒狂歡

來自古諾斯語ves heill,祝健康，ves-,是，詞源同was,heill,健康，詞源同healthy.字面意思即喝酒有祝健康，再來一杯。

wassail: wassail: [13] Wassail was borrowed from Old Norse ves heill, literally ‘be healthy’. This was a toast or salutation given when about to drink (much like English good health!). Ves was the imperative singular of vesa or vera ‘be’ (a relative of English was and were) and heill is essentially the same word as English hale and whole, and related to healthy.
=> hale, healthy, whole
wassail: mid-12c., from Old Norse ves heill "be healthy," a salutation, from ves, imperative of vesa "to be" (see was) + heill "healthy," from Proto-Germanic *haila- (see health). Use as a drinking phrase appears to have arisen among Danes in England and spread to native inhabitants.

A similar formation appears in Old English wes tu hal, but this is not recorded as a drinking salutation. Sense extended c. 1300 to "liquor in which healths were drunk," especially spiced ale used in Christmas Eve celebrations. Meaning "a carousal, reveling" first attested c. 1600. Wassailing "custom of going caroling house to house at Christmas time" is recorded from 1742.