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語源

Uncertain. Relation to Medieval Latin hulcus, holcas (“a kind of ship”) is uncertain (the 古期英語 may have borrowed from the Latin または vice versa). Compare also Old High German holcho (“a barge, freighter, cargo ship”), Old Norse holkr (“metal tube, ring", later also "barge, cargo ship”). It's possible that the word is originally the same as 古期英語 holc (“a hollow, cavity”). Alternatively, the various senses may represent separate origins that coalesced into a single term.