Chicago的词源
英文词源
- Chicago (n.)
- town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, either Fox /sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan.
中文词源
最初名叫Shikaakwa,来自当地爱荷华-伊利诺伊-印第安按-俄亥俄区域各部落(主要是福克斯部、迈阿密部和萨乌克部等等)所使用的阿尔冈琴语,指的是美国中西部和加拿大东部特有的一种长得像大葱的植物。后来,法国探险家罗伯特·德·拉塞尔骑士根据读音将这里改写为Checagou,再后来转写为Chicago。由于词源是开头为Shi,因此Chicago的正确发音应该是Shi(接近“施”)-cago而不是Chi(“吃”或者“七”)-cago。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:Chicago 词源,Chicago 含义。