Rocky Mountains的词源
英文词源
- Montana
- U.S. state, from Latinized form of Spanish montaña "mountain," from Latin mont-, stem of mons (see mountain). Proposed 1864 by U.S. Rep. James H. Ashley of Ohio when it was created as a territory from Nebraska Territory, in reference to the Rocky Mountains, which however traverse only one end of it. Admitted as a state 1889. Related: Montanan.
- Rockies (n.)
- "the Rocky Mountains," 1827; see rocky.
- rocky (adj.)
- "full of rocks," c. 1400, from rock (n.1) + -y (2); "unsteady," 1737, from rock (v.1). Meaning "difficult, hard" is recorded from 1873, and may represent a bit of both.
The Rocky Mountains so called by 1802, translating French Montagnes Rocheuses, first applied to the Canadian Rockies. "The name is not directly self-descriptive but is an approximate translation of the name of the former Native American people here known as the Assiniboin .... The mountains are in fact not noticeably rocky" [Room]. Bright notes that "These Indians were called /assiniipwaan/, lit. 'stone Sioux', by their Cree (Algonkian) neighbors".
中文词源
意译于生活在美国中北部和加拿大中部的部族克里人（Cree）语言中的as-sin-wati一词。克里人生活在大平原北部。从那里遥望落基山，就像一大堆石头，因此他们将落基山叫做as-sin-wati，意思就是“岩石的山”。后来英国人根据意思把这座山叫做Rocky Mountains，意思也是“岩石的山”。
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