英语词汇idaho的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Idaho. Idaho may be the only state name that is a complete fraud—at any rate, its name may mean nothing at all. Many sources derive the word Idaho from a Shoshonean Indian word meaning “gem of the mountain,” but the Idaho State Historical Society claims that there never was any such Indian word and that Idaho and its translation was the phony creation of a min- ing lobbyist who suggested it to Congress as the name for the territory we now know as Colorado. Congress rejected the name, but it caught on among gold prospectors along the Co- lumbia River, and when it was proposed in 1863 as the name for what we know today as Idaho, Congress approved it and the Idaho Territory was born. The origin of the word may be Shoshonean, however, though it does not mean “gem of the mountain” or “Behold! The sun is coming down the moun- tain,” as another writer suggested. Idaho residents, in fact, ought to forget about the real Shoshone word that Idaho may have derived from, for that word would be Idahi, a Kiowa curse for the Comanches that translates roughly as “eaters of feces,” “performers of unnatural acts,” “sources of foul odors,” etc.

词汇	idaho
词源	Idaho. Idaho may be the only state name that is a complete fraud—at any rate, its name may mean nothing at all. Many sources derive the word Idaho from a Shoshonean Indian word meaning “gem of the mountain,” but the Idaho State Historical Society claims that there never was any such Indian word and that Idaho and its translation was the phony creation of a min- ing lobbyist who suggested it to Congress as the name for the territory we now know as Colorado. Congress rejected the name, but it caught on among gold prospectors along the Co- lumbia River, and when it was proposed in 1863 as the name for what we know today as Idaho, Congress approved it and the Idaho Territory was born. The origin of the word may be Shoshonean, however, though it does not mean “gem of the mountain” or “Behold! The sun is coming down the moun- tain,” as another writer suggested. Idaho residents, in fact, ought to forget about the real Shoshone word that Idaho may have derived from, for that word would be Idahi, a Kiowa curse for the Comanches that translates roughly as “eaters of feces,” “performers of unnatural acts,” “sources of foul odors,” etc.
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