honey 的词源

也 honied，意为“甜蜜如蜜”，14世纪中期，来自 honey (n.)。

这是约翰逊在18世纪（《格雷传》）中谴责的词汇之一，认为这是最近的趋势：过去分词形容词没有对应动词。但这种用法仍然蓬勃发展。

Between these participial adjectives, and those which Johnson condemns, there is the closest analogy. Both are derived from substantives, and both have the termination of participles. The latter, such words for instance as honied, daisied, slippered, tapestried, and the like differ from the others only in not being referable to any yet established verb. But so little material is this difference, that there is hardly one of these cases in which the corresponding verb might not, if it were wanted, be formed and used in strict conformity with the genius of our language. [Lord Grenville, "Nugae Metricae," 1824]

在这些分词形容词和约翰逊谴责的那些之间，存在着最密切的类比。两者均源自名词，且都具有分词的词尾。后者，例如 honied， daisied， slippered， tapestried 等词，仅在于不能归属于任何已建立的动词。但这种差异的材料如此之少，以至于几乎没有一个案例，其中对应的动词如果需要，可以在严格遵循我们语言的特点下被形成和使用。[格伦维尔勋爵，《Nugae Metricae》，1824年]

中英语中还有 honey-sweet (adj.) “如蜜般甜蜜；愉悦的；精神上有益的”。

1721年起，honorable（形容词）被缩写为1721；1906年起，honey（名词）在表达亲昵时被缩写为1906。