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Why is beef mutton called beef mutton, while cattle and sheep are called cattle sheep?

This is the difference in word-formation habits between Chinese and Western languages. Chinese likes to use partial phrases to construct new words, for example, the meat of a cow is beef, and the meat of a sheep is mutton; while Western languages ??like to create a completely new word, so the two words beef and cow have no similarity at all.

In addition, the word mutton should come from the French mouton, which refers to both sheep and mutton in French.