果真，《牛津英语词典》将mess一词的来源追溯至盎格鲁-诺曼语和之前的古法语。
Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.
最初，它是日耳曼语，而在1066年诺曼征服之后，大量法语词汇涌入（英语）。
Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.
大多数基于拉丁语的英语单词是在1066年诺曼征服时的法语中出现的，有些则出现得更晚，它们是由那些自以为在文章里插上几个基于拉丁文的单词就很有文化的人们带进来的。
Most Latinate English words appeared with the French of the Norman Conquest of 1066 or appeared even later, introduced by people thinking they were smart to drop Latin based words into their writing.
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