Biloxi
名词 n.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
- A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
专有名词
- The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
- A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
- A village in southeastern Texas.
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.
词源 2
Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.
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