Des Moines的词源

英文词源

Des Moines: city in Iowa, U.S., named for French Rivière des Moines, the river that flows past it, which traditionally is derived from French des moines "of the monks," in reference to missionaries, but this probably is a fur trappers' folk-etymologizing of a name of the native people who lived there.

The place appears in a 1673 text as Moinguena, and historians believe this represents Miami-Illinois mooyiinkweena, literally "shitface," from mooy "excrement" + iinkwee "face;" a name given by the Peoria Indians (whose name has itself become a sort of insult) to their western neighbors. It is not unusual for Indian peoples to have hostile or derogatory names for others, but this seems an extreme case.

爱荷华州的城市。字面意思为“来自于僧侣”，源自法语，直接这样看不太好理解。最初这是当地的一条河的名字，而这条河的发源地是圣路易斯附近的一座山上，山上是一位法国特拉普教派僧人的修道场所，因此这条河被叫做Des Moines River，即“从僧侣那里来的河”。后来这个城市因河得名。

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