词汇 | bradley |
词源 | Bradley. According to Gary Jennings in Personalities of Lan- guage (1965): “All of the few Chickahominy Indians still exist- ing in Virginia are surnamed Bradley. This commemorates ei- ther the popularity or the fecundity of an early English colonist, a runaway indentured servant, who joined and married into the tribe.” |
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