名詞 reindeer:

1. arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
   同義詞：caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus

1. Any of several large reindeer native to northern North America.
   北美馴鹿原產(chǎn)于北美洲北部的一種巨大的馴鹿
2. Reindeer have branched antlers.
   馴鹿有帶叉的角。

rein.deer

n.（名詞）
【復(fù)數(shù)】 reindeer 或 rein.deers
A large deer(Rangifer tarandus) of the Arctic and northern regions of Eurasia and North America, having branched antlers in both sexes.
馴鹿：北極、亞歐大陸和北美洲北部地區(qū)的一種大鹿（馴鹿） 雌雄兩性都有分叉的鹿角

來(lái)源：
Middle English reindere
中古英語(yǔ) reindere
Old Norse hreinn [reindeer] * see ker-
古斯堪的納維亞語(yǔ) hreinn [馴鹿] *參見(jiàn) ker-
Middle English der [animal] * see deer
中古英語(yǔ) der [動(dòng)物] *參見(jiàn) deer

<注釋>Although Saint Nick uses reins on his reindeerand reindeer are used to pull sleds in Lapland and northern Siberia,the wordreindeer has nothing to do with reins. The element-deer is indeed our word deer, but therein- part is borrowed from another language, specifically from the Scandinavian languages spoken by the chiefly Danish and Norwegian invaders and settlers of England from the 9th to the th century.Even though the Old Icelandic language in which much of Old Norse literature is written is not the same variety of Old Norse spoken by these settlers of England,it is close enough to give us an idea of the words that were borrowed into English.Thus we can cite the Old Icelandic wordhreinn, which means .reindeer,. as the source of the first part of the English word. The wordreindeer is first recorded in Middle English in a work composed before 400.
盡管圣誕老人在他的馴鹿身上用韁繩，且馴鹿過(guò)去在拉普蘭和西伯利亞北部曾被用來(lái)拖拉雪撬，reindeer 這個(gè)字卻和韁繩沒(méi)有任何關(guān)系。 構(gòu)詞元素-deer 確實(shí)是我們的單詞 deer， 但是rein 這一部分是從其他語(yǔ)言中借用過(guò)來(lái)的， 特別是主要從丹麥和挪威的入侵者及9世紀(jì)到世紀(jì)列英格蘭定居者說(shuō)的斯堪的納維亞語(yǔ)借用的。盡管許多古代北歐文學(xué)都使用的古冰島語(yǔ)與這些到英格蘭定居的人所說(shuō)的古代北歐語(yǔ)并不是同一變體，但它對(duì)于我們認(rèn)識(shí)借進(jìn)英語(yǔ)的詞匯也是足夠接近的。這樣，我們便可以引用意為.馴鹿.的古冰島語(yǔ)hreinn 來(lái)作為英語(yǔ)單詞第一部分的來(lái)源。 Reindeer 最早在400年以前所著的一部作品中以中古英語(yǔ)記錄下來(lái)