Arkansas
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (river): Arkansa (archaic)
- Arkansaw (obsolete, the spelling used when the territory was organized in 1819)
Etymology edit
From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw.[1] This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹ.kənˌsɔ/, (cot-caught merger) /-ɑ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (US, now nonstandard in reference to the state) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈkæn.zəs/ (see usage notes)
- Rhymes: -ænzəs
Proper noun edit
Arkansas
- A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
- A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.
Usage notes edit
- The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored /ˈɑɹkənsɔː/ and the other of whom favored /ɑɹˈkænzəs/.[2] /ɑɹˈkænzəs/ is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States →ISBN, page 47 (citing personal communication with Robert Rankin)
- ^ In 1881, the Arkansas General Assembly passed the following concurrent resolution, now Arkansas Code 1 April 105: "Whereas, confusion of practice has arisen in the pronunciation of the name of our state and it is deemed important that the true pronunciation should be determined for use in oral official proceedings.
And, whereas, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the State Historical Society and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, which have agreed upon the correct pronunciation as derived from history, and the early usage of the American immigrants.
Be it therefore resolved by both houses of the General Assembly, that the only true pronunciation of the name of the state, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the French word representing the sound. It should be pronounced in three (3) syllables, with the final "s" silent, the "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of "a" in "man" and the sounding of the terminal "s" is discouraged by Arkansans."
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Arkansas.
Proper noun edit
Arkansas (genitive Arkansas')
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsɑs/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠ɑ̝s̠] (declension: risti)
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsoː/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠o̞ː] (declension: maa)
- Syllabification(key): Ar‧kan‧sas
Proper noun edit
Arkansas
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Declension edit
- Depends on the pronunciation, see above.
Inflection of Arkansas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Arkansas | — | ||
genitive | Arkansasin | — | ||
partitive | Arkansasia | — | ||
illative | Arkansasiin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Arkansas | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Arkansas | — | |
gen. | Arkansasin | |||
genitive | Arkansasin | — | ||
partitive | Arkansasia | — | ||
inessive | Arkansasissa | — | ||
elative | Arkansasista | — | ||
illative | Arkansasiin | — | ||
adessive | Arkansasilla | — | ||
ablative | Arkansasilta | — | ||
allative | Arkansasille | — | ||
essive | Arkansasina | — | ||
translative | Arkansasiksi | — | ||
abessive | Arkansasitta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Inflection of Arkansas (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Arkansas | — | ||
genitive | Arkansas’n | — | ||
partitive | Arkansas’ta | — | ||
illative | Arkansas’hon | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Arkansas | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Arkansas | — | |
gen. | Arkansas’n | |||
genitive | Arkansas’n | — | ||
partitive | Arkansas’ta | — | ||
inessive | Arkansas’ssa | — | ||
elative | Arkansas’sta | — | ||
illative | Arkansas’hon | — | ||
adessive | Arkansas’lla | — | ||
ablative | Arkansas’lta | — | ||
allative | Arkansas’lle | — | ||
essive | Arkansas’na | — | ||
translative | Arkansas’ksi | — | ||
abessive | Arkansas’tta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /aʁˈkanzas/ (Germanicised; slightly dated in educated speech)
- IPA(key): /ˈaʁkənˌsɔː/ (approaching English; educated)
Audio (file)
- IPA(key): /aʁˈkɛnzəs/, /əˈkɛnzəs/ (approaching the dated or merely a supposed English pronunciation; proscribed)
Proper noun edit
Arkansas n (proper noun, genitive Arkansas' or (with an article) Arkansas)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Arkansas | — |
accusative | Arkansast | — |
dative | Arkansasnak | — |
instrumental | Arkansasszal | — |
causal-final | Arkansasért | — |
translative | Arkansasszá | — |
terminative | Arkansasig | — |
essive-formal | Arkansasként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Arkansasban | — |
superessive | Arkansason | — |
adessive | Arkansasnál | — |
illative | Arkansasba | — |
sublative | Arkansasra | — |
allative | Arkansashoz | — |
elative | Arkansasból | — |
delative | Arkansasról | — |
ablative | Arkansastól | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Arkansasé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Arkansaséi | — |
Possessive forms of Arkansas | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Arkansasom | — |
2nd person sing. | Arkansasod | — |
3rd person sing. | Arkansasa | — |
1st person plural | Arkansasunk | — |
2nd person plural | Arkansasotok | — |
3rd person plural | Arkansasuk | — |
Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
References edit
- ^ Arkansas in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Arkansas, from French Arcansas.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas m inan (indeclinable)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Proper noun edit
Arkansas f (indeclinable)
- Arkansas (a river in the United States)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Arkansas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Romanian edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas n
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas m inan (genitive singular Arkansasu, declension pattern of dub)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
References edit
- “Arkansas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Related terms edit
See also edit
- Arkansas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es