Kwajalein
English
editEtymology
editFrom German Kwajalein, from Marshallese Kuwajleen.
Pronunciation
editMuch less common pronunciations include /ˈkwɑːd͡ʒəˌliːn/, /ˈkwɑːd͡ʒəˌleɪn/ or /ˈkwɑːd͡ʒəˌlaɪn/. These are all very scarce among the atoll's English-speaking residents. American English is usually spoken by Kwajalein island's American expatriate population, which has the father-bother merger; for accents without this merger (including Received Pronunciation), /ˈkwɒd͡ʒəlɪn/ is a possible realization. This is not technically wrong, because the aforementioned father-bother merger makes this pronunciation indistinguishable from /ˈkwɑːd͡ʒəlɪn/. Indeed, the name of Kwajalein island's primary hotel, the Kwaj Lodge, is a wordplay on Kwaj and lodge rhyming.
Proper noun
editKwajalein
- Kwajalein atoll.
- Kwajalein island, Kwajalein atoll.
Derived terms
editGerman
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Marshallese Kuwajleen.
Proper noun
editKwajalein
- Kwajalein (an atoll in the Marshall Islands)
- Kwajalein (an island in Kwajalein atoll, in the Marshall Islands)
Descendants
edit- → English: Kwajalein
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Marshallese
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- German terms borrowed from Marshallese
- German terms derived from Marshallese
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
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- de:Places in the Marshall Islands
- de:Islands