英语词汇ozarks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Ozarks. The Ozark Mountains in Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, ranging up to 2,300 feet high, cover an area of 50,000 square miles, and are noted more for their beautiful scenery and mineral springs, which make them a resort area, than their rich deposits of lead and zinc. The Ozarks are named for a local band of Quapaw Indians who lived in the Missouri and Arkansas region of the mountains. “The French were in the habit of shortening the long Indian names by using only their first syllables,” an article in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ex- plains. “There are frequent references in their records to hunt- ing or trading expeditions ‘aux Kans,’ or ‘aux Os,’ or ‘aux Arcs,’ meaning ‘up into’ the territory of the Kansas, Osage, or Arkan- sas tribes.” This aux Arcs seems to be the more likely explana- tion for Ozarks, although the local Arkansas band may have been named from the French aux Arcs, meaning “with bows,” which could also have been corrupted to Ozarks and later ap- plied to the mountains where the Indians lived.

词汇	ozarks
词源	Ozarks. The Ozark Mountains in Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, ranging up to 2,300 feet high, cover an area of 50,000 square miles, and are noted more for their beautiful scenery and mineral springs, which make them a resort area, than their rich deposits of lead and zinc. The Ozarks are named for a local band of Quapaw Indians who lived in the Missouri and Arkansas region of the mountains. “The French were in the habit of shortening the long Indian names by using only their first syllables,” an article in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ex- plains. “There are frequent references in their records to hunt- ing or trading expeditions ‘aux Kans,’ or ‘aux Os,’ or ‘aux Arcs,’ meaning ‘up into’ the territory of the Kansas, Osage, or Arkan- sas tribes.” This aux Arcs seems to be the more likely explana- tion for Ozarks, although the local Arkansas band may have been named from the French aux Arcs, meaning “with bows,” which could also have been corrupted to Ozarks and later ap- plied to the mountains where the Indians lived.
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