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「#1735. カナダ州名の由来」 ([2014-01-26-1]) と「#1736. イギリス州名の由来」 ([2014-01-27-1]) に続いて,今回はアメリカの州 (state) の名前の由来を訪ねる.まずは,州境の入った地図から.
語源別に50州の内訳をみると,以下のようになっている.過半数がアメリカ先住民の言語に由来する.
Number | Origin |
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28 | American Indian |
11 | English |
6 | Spanish |
3 | French |
1 | Dutch (Rhode Island) |
1 | from America's own history (Washington) |
Alabama | Choctaw "I open the thicket" (i.e. clears the land) |
Alaska | Inuit "great land" |
Arizona | Papago "place of the small spring" |
Arkansas | Sioux "land of the south wind people" |
California | Spanish "earthly paradise" |
Colorado | Spanish "red" (colour of the earth) |
Connecticut | Mohican "at the long tidal river" |
Delaware | named after English governor Lord de la Warr |
Florida | Spanish "land of flowers" |
Georgia | named after George II |
Hawaii | Hawaiian "homeland" |
Idaho | Shoshone "light on the mountain" |
Illinois | Algonquian via French "warriors" |
Indiana | English "land of the Indians" |
Iowa | Dakota "the sleepy one" |
Kansas | Sioux "land of the south wind people" |
Kentucky | Iroquois "meadow land" |
Louisiana | named after Louis XIV of France |
Maine | named after a French province |
Maryland | named after Henrietta maria, queen of Charles I |
Massachusetts | Algonquian "place of the big hill" |
Michigan | Chippewa "big water" |
Minnesota | Dakota Sioux "sky-coloured water" |
Mississippi | Chippewa "big river" |
Missouri | Algonquian via French "muddy waters" (?) |
Montana | Spanish "mountains" |
Nebraska | Omaha "river in the flatness" |
Nevada | Spanish "snowy" |
New Hampshire | named after an English county |
New Jersey | named after Jersey (Channel Islands) |
New Mexico | named after Mexico (Aztec "war god, Mextli") |
New York | named after the Duke of York |
North Carolina | named after Charles II |
North Dakota | Sioux "friend" |
Ohio | Iroquois "beautiful water" |
Oklahoma | Choctaw "red people" |
Oregon | Algonquian "beautiful water" or "beaver place" (?) |
Pennsylvania | named after William Penn and Latin "woodland" |
Rhode Island | Dutch "red clay" |
South Carolina | named after Charles II |
South Dakota | Sioux "friend" |
Tennessee | Cherokee settlement name, unknown origin |
Texas | Spanish "allies" |
Utah | Navaho "upper land" or "land of the Ute" (?) |
Vermont | French "green mountain" |
Virginia | named after Elizabeth I, the "virgin queen" |
Washington | named after George Washington |
West Virginia | named after Elizabeth I, the "virgin queen" |
Wisconsin | Algonquian "grassy place" or "beaver place" (?) |
Wyoming | Algonquian "place of the big flats" |
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