Kentucky的词源
英文词源
- Kentucky




- U.S. state, earlier a county of Virginia, organized 1776; the name is of Iroquois or Shawnee origin, perhaps a Wyandot (Iroquoian) word meaning "meadow" (compare Seneca geda'geh "at the field"); the original use in English seems to have been the river name; the native use perhaps was first in reference to a village in what now is Clark County known in Shawnee as Eskippakithiki. Related: Kentuckian.
中文词源
来自易诺奎语Kentake,意思是“鲜血染红的土地”。该州位于阿巴拉契亚山西侧,扼守南北要道,曾经是各大印第安人部落之间反复争夺之地,发生过不少恶战,因此得名。
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