gueredon

Japanese: gueredon
gueredon

…Giving something has a binding effect on the recipient, and giving something in return is a way of breaking away from that binding effect. The fact that this power was strong in the past can be seen in the fact that there was a word for a gift, gueredon, which was the counterpart of the Middle French word don (derived from the Latin donum), which means a gift. Because don evokes gueredon, the word présent came to be used to mean a gift in the 17th and 18th centuries (which became the Japanese word 'present' through English), and furthermore, the word cadeau has come to be used in modern times. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "gueredon" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…物を贈ることには相手に対する拘束力があり,〈お返し〉はそれからの離脱である。昔この力が強かったことは贈物をあらわす中世フランス語ドンdon(ラテン語donumに由来する)の対としてゲルドンgueredonという〈お返し〉に当たる単語があることにも見られる。donがgueredonを喚起することから,17,18世紀になって贈物をあらわすのにプレザンprésentの語が用いられるようになり(英語を介して日本語のプレゼントとなっている),さらに現代ではカドーcadeauの語が用いられるようになった。…

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