Hold two things from the same object and the whole word opens up. Look inside a hive and you see a crowd: thousands of bees in one small space, every one of them moving, nobody standing still. Look at an old hive from the outside and you see a shape: a smooth rounded dome, wide at the bottom, tall on top. English has borrowed both. The crowd gives us a place buzzing with busy people. The dome gives us the hair piled high on a head.
From the word’s history
The supplied source gives Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee plus hive. Nothing is hidden inside this word: it is the two things put together, which is why every later use is a picture taken from the object itself rather than a meaning that drifted.
packet 附的來源說它來自中古英文 beehyve，就是 bee 加 hive。這個字裡沒有藏東西，它就是兩個字擺在一起。所以它後來的每一個意思，都是從這個實物身上取下來的畫面，不是意思飄走了。
Wiktionary entry for 'beehive' as supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:362959886): 'From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive'.
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