| 词汇 | cherokee |
| 词源 | Cherokee. The name of this Indian tribe is a mystery, their name perhaps stolen from them like their land. “The word Cherokee itself has no meaning in the Indian language,” writes Michael Frome in Strangers in High Places (1966). “It may have had its origin in the time of the [Fernando] de Soto expedition (1540) with the word Achelaque, modified in stages to spell Cherokee, until not even their name remained to them.” See trail of tears. |
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