Iowa
See also: ʻIowa
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).
PronunciationEdit
- (state, river):
- (town in Louisiana):
Proper nounEdit
Iowa
- A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.
- 1951, Hoover, Herbert, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874–1920[1], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:
- I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw it through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops.
- A tributary of the Mississippi River which flows through Iowa in a southeast direction.
- A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
- University of Iowa.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
A state in Midwestern US
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NounEdit
Iowa (plural Iowas)
- One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.
See alsoEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Harold B. Allen (June 1956), “Distribution Patterns of Place-Name Pronunciations”, in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, volume 6, issue 2, , pages 74-77: “Since no members of the younger generation are reported as using this form [/ˈaɪəweɪ/], it would seem safe to predict its disappearance within the next two generations.”
Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa (genitive Iowas)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of Iowa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Iowa | — | |
| genitive | Iowan | — | |
| partitive | Iowaa | — | |
| illative | Iowaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Iowa | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Iowa | — |
| gen. | Iowan | ||
| genitive | Iowan | — | |
| partitive | Iowaa | — | |
| inessive | Iowassa | — | |
| elative | Iowasta | — | |
| illative | Iowaan | — | |
| adessive | Iowalla | — | |
| ablative | Iowalta | — | |
| allative | Iowalle | — | |
| essive | Iowana | — | |
| translative | Iowaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Iowatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Iowa (type kala) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Iowani | Iowamme |
| 2nd person | Iowasi | Iowanne |
| 3rd person | Iowansa | |
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa n (proper noun, genitive Iowas or (optionally with an article) Iowa)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Further readingEdit
Iowa on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa m
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English Iowa, from French Aiouez, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa f (indeclinable)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English Iowa, from French Aiouez, after the Iowa tribe.
Proper nounEdit
Iowa m
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
SlovakEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa f (genitive singular Iowy, declension pattern of žena)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
ReferencesEdit
- Iowa in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SpanishEdit
Proper nounEdit
Iowa f
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
See alsoEdit
- Iowa on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es