アーカンソー

Japanese

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): [a̠ːkã̠ɰ̃so̞ː]

Proper noun

アーカンソー • (Ākansō) 

  1. (~州) Arkansas (a state of the United States)
  2. (~川) Arkansas (river)

See also

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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