アーカンソー
Japanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Arkansas,[1][2] from French pronunciation of Siouan, meaning “land of downriver people” in Quapaw/Kansa and “people of the south wind” in Dakota/Lakota.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- (~州) Arkansas (a state of the United States)
- (~川) Arkansas (river)
See also edit
- カンザス (Kanzasu)
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN