Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
US Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Estados Unidos de América, États-Unis d'Amérique, Stati Uniti d'America, United States of America
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Allegheny (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.deiaco.com/~desfayes/?p=14
A mountain range in the Eastern United States. From the Delaware Amerind "alleghany" = "mountain without end".
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"ANS" steht für "American Name Society".
(E?)(L?) http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ans/
The "American Name Society" was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to find out what really is in a name, and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names.
Focusing on the understanding of names in all forms, the Society provides members with several vehicles for the discussion and publication of onomastic theory, views and concepts:
- * an annual meeting
- * regional meetings
- * NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
- * the ANS Bulletin
- * the ANS-L email discussion listserve
- * the Ehrensperger Report
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binghamton
(E?)(L?) http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ans
American Name Society - The American Name Society was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad.
Links to Related Web Sites:
- Geographic Names Data Base (Official U.S. Records)
- Canadian Society for the Study of Names
- Geographical Names Data Base (Canadian Records)
- Canadian Geographical Names (Canadian Name Origins)
- Information for the Genealogist
- Toponymy Interest Group of the American Name Society
- Lurline Coltharp Collection of Onomastics
- U.S. Census Bureau (Frequently Appearing Names)
- Placenames
- International Council of Onomastic Sciences
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(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/City
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eleaston - Place Names - Link-Liste
(E?)(L?) http://www.eleaston.com/ety-name.html#pln
Hier findet man viele etymologische Links zu den Kategorien:
- Country Names John Knouse
- Country Names Africa / Click Afrique
- America vs. the U.S. When do we use the article "the" in country names?
- Australia Gazetteer of Australia
- The Bronx, NY Why do we use the article "the"?
- England Kristine Elliott
- German-Speaking Countries Rick Heli
- Ireland
- Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia The Baltics Worldwide
- Long Island, NY: Indian Place Names
- Philippines hometown.aol.com/xexyxadie
- Scotland
- United States USGS
- U.S. States LOC
epodunk - American Place names in the language
(E?)(L?) http://www.epodunk.com/americanisms.html
Place names sometimes leave a mark not only on the map, but on the language. A few classic examples (we welcome more):
- "Adirondack chair" - The sloped-back lawn chair originated in this part of northern New York, but was first known as the Westport chair, for the community on Lake Champlain
- "Alabama egg" - Egg fried in the hollow middle of a slice of bread
- "Albany beef" - An outdated term for the sturgeon that once flourished in the Hudson River
- "Arkansas toothpick" - A large bowie knife
- "Baked Alaska" - This seeming oxymoron is a dessert of ice cream covered with cake, pastry or meringue and baked in a hot oven. The name reputedly was coined at Delmonico's Restaurant, in recognition of the newly acquired territory
- "Boston cream pie" - Not really a pie but a cake. Designated by the Massachusetts Legislature as the official state dessert
- "Bronx cheer" - A sputtering, often splattering, sound of disapproval, generally traced to Yankee Stadium
- "Buffalo wings" - There are many legends about the fiery finger food; the most popular traces its origins to the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY
- "California collar" - Hangman's noose. Other favorites from frontier days:
- "California banknote" - A cowhide
- "California prayer book" - A deck of cards
- "Cape Cod turkey" - Codfish, from the era when the fishing industry ruled
- "Charleston" - The dance, believed to have been around since the mid-19th century, was made popular by the "Ziegfeld Follies" in 1923
- "Cincinnati oysters" - Pigs' feet, for the local packing plants
- "Coney Island" - A hot dog smothered in chili. Curiously, in New York state, a Coney Island is sometimes called a Michigan
- "Florida room" - A sun room or lounge with big windows. (Arizonans often call these "Arizona rooms")
- "Full Cleveland" - As defined by The New York Times (June 20, 2004), an outfit consisting of "a matching white belt and shoes (preferably worn with a powder-blue leisure suit)"
- "Georgia ice cream" - Grits
- "Kansas sheep dip" - Whiskey
- "Louisville slugger" - Baseball bat invented in 1884 by apprentice woodworker J.A. "Bud" Hillerich and made famous by baseball greats Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb
- "Michigan bankroll" - A wad of bills, with a large denomination on the outside and smaller denominations on the inside. Also called Oklahoma bankroll or Philadelphia bankroll
- "Mississippi mud pie" - A rich chocolate dessert, often with graham-cracker crust
- "Nebraska brick" - A square of prairie sod used to build a sod house
- "New York minute" - In the city that never sleeps, this is just a blink of an eye. (Also the title of a Don Henley song and a 2004 movie starring the Olsen twins)
- "Oklahoma rain" - Sandstorm
- "Philly cheese steak" - Grilled beef on an Italian roll with melted cheese. The city's signature dish is believed to have been invented by a local hot dog vendor named Pat Olivieri
- "Santa Ana" - A strong, hot wind in southern California, for the Santa Ana Mountains
- "Saratoga" - A lady's traveling trunk, named for the spa in upstate New York
- "Springfield" - A rifle made in Springfield, MA. The Springfield Armory manufactured arms for the U.S. military from 1794 to 1968
- "Texas tea" - Oil, as immortalized in the Ballad of Jed Clampett
- "West Virginia coleslaw" - Chewing tobacco
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(E?)(L?) http://www.georoots.org/
Here find a dictionary of geological terms along with their etymologies. Also check out the "Society for the Preservation of the Old English Positive".
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infoplease - Spanish Place Names in USA
(E?)(L?) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/spanishnames.html
Hispanic heritage from coast to coast - by Holly Hartman
(Jeweils mit kurzen Hinweisen:
Alcatraz Island | Alamo | Alcatraz Island (California) | California | Colorado | El Paso (Texas) | Fresno (California) | La Brea (California) | Las Cruces (New Mexico) | Las Vegas (Nevada) | Los Angeles (California) | Los Gatos (California) | Montana | Nevada | San Antonio (Texas) | San Francisco (California) | Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colorado and New Mexico) | Santa Fe (New Mexico)
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lib.byu
(E?)(L?) http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm
BIBLIOGRAPHIC STANDARDS COMMITTEE - LATIN PLACE NAMES
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Placenames
(E?)(L?) http://www.placenames.com/
Podunk (W2)
(E1)(L1) http://www.epodunk.com/podunk.html
"Podunk" ist ein amerikanischer Ausdruck für einen kleinen verschlafenen Ort. Im Deutschen entspricht es etwa einem abwertenden "Hintertupfingen" oder "Krähwinkel".
Das engl. "podunk" = "kleiner Ort" ("Hintertupfingen") geht auf eine Wort der Indianersprache der Algonquian "pawtunk" = "Sumpf", "Moor, "Morast" zurück. Eine Orte im Norden der USA tragen diesen Namen. Die erste Erwähnung fand "podunk" in einem Zeitungsartikel aus dem Jahr 1846.
Die Website "epodunk" bietet einen Schatz an Informationen über die amerikanischen Bundesstaaten und Städte.
Und es gibt auch einen Abschnitt, in dem die Wortgeschichte von "Podunk" untersucht wird.
"Podunk" is generally believed to be an Indian name, possibly meaning "lowland," and communities called "Podunk" do tend toward swampiness.
Another theory, also associated with water, says the word mimics the sound of a mill wheel going "po-dunk," "po-dunk," "po-dunk."
Over the years, city media folk have made the mistake of declaring Podunk a fictional place, only to be corrected by the masses from Podunk. There are real, if unmapped, communities across America:
- Podunk, CT, in New Haven County
- Podunk, MI, in Barry County
- Another Podunk, MI, in Gladwin County
- Podunk, VT, in Windham County
- Podunk, NY, in Tompkins County
- Several proud Massachusetts residents have written us about a Podunk, MA, which they insist is the original. It's not that we don't believe them, it's just that the U.S. Geological Survey doesn't include a Podunk, MA, in its databases. (All of our communities are geocoded, with latitude and longitude supplied by the USGS. Here's a nationwide Podunk search on the USGS Web site. Try it and you will find a Podunk Cemetery in MA.)
- Other manifestations of Podunk have have been relegated to history books. Podunk, WI, an abandoned hamlet in Sauk County, was once a place where farmers hauled potatoes to the trains of the North Western Railroad.
- The Podunk name also graces a bluegrass festival in East Hartford, CT; a rock band from Port Arthur, TX; and, of course, our company, ePodunk, Inc.
- Podunk, NY, a crossroads too small to be called a hamlet, is just a few miles away from our office near Ithaca. (Much as we would have liked to locate in Podunk proper, office space in Podunk is an oxymoron.) In the 19th century, this was a commercial center in the midst of farm country. Local enterprises made butter churns, tubs, barrels, carriages and bricks.
Those days were livelier. In the 1880s, a vigilante group wearing white caps and masks tied the town highway superintendent to a tree and thrashed him for beating his wife. In 1888, a one-armed woman was murdered by a thief who set her house afire.
Today, a traveler who ventures off the main road toward Bolter Creek will find a cross-country ski center, a collision shop, a few houses and a smattering of for-sale signs. The place sags a little, but it has character. And a darned good name.
We're always looking for photos, post cards and anecdotes about Podunk. If you have information (or a comment on the Tao of Podunk), please send us an email.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/town
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(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village
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Lists of United States placename etymology
(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_United_States_placename_etymology
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- [+] U.S. county name etymologies (23 P)
Pages in category "Lists of United States placename etymology"
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- Algoma (word)
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- Etymologies of place names in Chicago, Illinois
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- List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
- List of U.S. place names of French origin
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- Etymologies of place names in Los Angeles, California
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- List of place names in New England of aboriginal origin
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- Etymologies of place names in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Etymologies of place names in San Francisco
- S cont.
- List of U.S. state name etymologies
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- List of Texas county seat name etymologies
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Ortsnamen: Paris, Texas
Aus Kentahten wird Kentucky
(E?)(L?) http://www.wissen.de/wde/generator/wissen/ressorts/bildung/index,page=1310362.html
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Who Was Who in North American Name Study
(E?)(L?) http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/onoma/
This site was created as one of the ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary (December 29, 2001) of the "American Name Society". Alan Rayburn has coordinated the production of the essays, and Michael McGoff has created this site. The scholars are listed alphabetically. The authors of the individual sections have been noted in italics at the end of each piece.
- Akrigg, George Philip Vernon
- Beeler, Madison S.
- Bright, William
- Bryant, Margaret M.
- Burrill, Meredith Frederic [Pete]
- Cassidy, Frederic Gomes [Fred]
- Coltharp, Lurline Hughes
- Douglas, Robert
- Drolet, Jean-Paul
- Ehrensperger, Edward C.
- Field, Thomas Parry [Tom]
- Fowkes, Robert Allen [Bob]
- Gannett, Henry
- Ganong, William Francis
- Georgacas, Demetrius John [Mimis]
- Granger, Byrd Howell
- Gudde, Erwin G.
- Hamlin, Frank Rodway
- Harder, Kelsie B.
- Lance, Donald M.
- Mac Aodha, Breandán
- McArthur, Lewis Ankeny [Tam]
- McMullen, Edwin Wallace [Mac]
- Neuffer, Claude Henry
- Pearce, Thomas Matthews [Matt]
- Pound, Louise
- Pyles, Joseph Thomas
- Ramsay, Robert Lee
- Read, Allen Walker
- Read, William Alexander
- Rudnyckyj, Jaroslav Bohdan [J.B]
- Sealock, Richard Burl
- Seary, Edgar Ronald
- Smith, Elsdon Coles
- Stewart, George Rippey
- Vogel, Virgil J.
- West, Robert Cooper [Bob]
- White, James
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Schultz, Patricia
1000 Places to See Before You Die. USA & Canada
(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761136916/etymologporta-20
(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761136916/etymologety0f-21
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(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761136916/etymologpor09-20
Taschenbuch: 1200 Seiten
Verlag: Ullmann/Tandem (30. Juni 2007)
Sprache: Englisch
Synopsis
Now, for the first time from the best selling travel author, Patricia Schultz, comes "1000 Places To See In The U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die". Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City - from Arthur Bryant's to Gates to B.B.'s Lawnside to Danny Edwards to LC's to Snead's. There's the ice hotel in Quebec, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, cowboy poetry readings, what to do in Lexington after the derby's over, and for every city, dozens of unexpected suggestions and essential destinations. The book is organized by region, and subject-specific indices in the back sort the book by interest - wilderness, great dining, best beaches, world-class museums, sports and adventures, road trips, and more. There's also an index that breaks out the best destinations for families with children. Following each entry is the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone numbers, costs, best times to visit.
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