Poltergeist
来自Big Physics
Safin（讨论 | 贡献）2022年4月28日 (四) 23:04的版本 （建立内容为“Category:etymology == google == [https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=poltergeist+etymology&newwindow=1&hl=en ref] mid 19th century: from German Poltergeist, f…”的新页面）
mid 19th century: from German Poltergeist, from poltern ‘create a disturbance’ + Geist ‘ghost’.
wiktionary
Unadapted borrowing from German Poltergeist, from poltern(“to rumble”) + Geist(“ghost”).
etymonline
poltergeist (n.)
"a noisy spirit, a ghost which makes its presence known by noises," 1838, from German Poltergeist, literally "noisy ghost," from poltern "make noise, rattle" (from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, ring, roar;" source of bellow, bell) + Geist "ghost" (see ghost (n.)). In the native idiom of Northern England, such phenomena likely would be credited to a boggart.
