Arkansas
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (river): Arkansa (archaic)
- Arkansaw (obsolete, the spelling used when the territory was organized in 1819)
Etymology
[edit]From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw.[1] This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹ.kənˌsɔ/, (cot–caught merger) /-ɑ/
- (US, now nonstandard in reference to the state) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈkæn.zəs/ (see usage notes)
- Rhymes: -ænzəs
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas
- A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
- A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.
Usage notes
[edit]- The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored /ˈɑɹkənsɔː/ and the other of whom favored /ɑɹˈkænzəs/.[2] /ɑɹˈkænzəs/ is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States →ISBN, page 47 (citing personal communication with Robert Rankin)
- ^ In 1881, the Arkansas General Assembly passed the following concurrent resolution, now Arkansas Code 1 April 105: "Whereas, confusion of practice has arisen in the pronunciation of the name of our state and it is deemed important that the true pronunciation should be determined for use in oral official proceedings.
And, whereas, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the State Historical Society and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, which have agreed upon the correct pronunciation as derived from history, and the early usage of the American immigrants.
Be it therefore resolved by both houses of the General Assembly, that the only true pronunciation of the name of the state, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the French word representing the sound. It should be pronounced in three (3) syllables, with the final "s" silent, the "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of "a" in "man" and the sounding of the terminal "s" is discouraged by Arkansans."
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Arkansas.
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas (genitive Arkansas')
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsɑs/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠ɑ̝s̠] (declension: risti)
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsoː/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠o̞ː] (declension: maa)
- Syllabification(key): Ar‧kan‧sas
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Declension
[edit]- Depends on the pronunciation, see above.
Inflection of Arkansas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Arkansas | — | |
genitive | Arkansasin | — | |
partitive | Arkansasia | — | |
illative | Arkansasiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Arkansas | — | |
accusative | nom. | Arkansas | — |
gen. | Arkansasin | ||
genitive | Arkansasin | — | |
partitive | Arkansasia | — | |
inessive | Arkansasissa | — | |
elative | Arkansasista | — | |
illative | Arkansasiin | — | |
adessive | Arkansasilla | — | |
ablative | Arkansasilta | — | |
allative | Arkansasille | — | |
essive | Arkansasina | — | |
translative | Arkansasiksi | — | |
abessive | Arkansasitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Inflection of Arkansas (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Arkansas | — | |
genitive | Arkansas’n | — | |
partitive | Arkansas’ta | — | |
illative | Arkansas’hon | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Arkansas | — | |
accusative | nom. | Arkansas | — |
gen. | Arkansas’n | ||
genitive | Arkansas’n | — | |
partitive | Arkansas’ta | — | |
inessive | Arkansas’ssa | — | |
elative | Arkansas’sta | — | |
illative | Arkansas’hon | — | |
adessive | Arkansas’lla | — | |
ablative | Arkansas’lta | — | |
allative | Arkansas’lle | — | |
essive | Arkansas’na | — | |
translative | Arkansas’ksi | — | |
abessive | Arkansas’tta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aʁˈkanzas/ (Germanicised; slightly dated in educated speech)
- IPA(key): /ˈaʁkənˌsɔː/ (approaching English; educated)
Audio: (file)
- IPA(key): /aʁˈkɛnzəs/, /əˈkɛnzəs/ (approaching the dated or merely a supposed English pronunciation; proscribed)
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas n (proper noun, genitive Arkansas' or (with an article) Arkansas)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Arkansas | — |
accusative | Arkansast | — |
dative | Arkansasnak | — |
instrumental | Arkansasszal | — |
causal-final | Arkansasért | — |
translative | Arkansasszá | — |
terminative | Arkansasig | — |
essive-formal | Arkansasként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Arkansasban | — |
superessive | Arkansason | — |
adessive | Arkansasnál | — |
illative | Arkansasba | — |
sublative | Arkansasra | — |
allative | Arkansashoz | — |
elative | Arkansasból | — |
delative | Arkansasról | — |
ablative | Arkansastól | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Arkansasé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Arkansaséi | — |
Possessive forms of Arkansas | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Arkansasom | — |
2nd person sing. | Arkansasod | — |
3rd person sing. | Arkansasa | — |
1st person plural | Arkansasunk | — |
2nd person plural | Arkansasotok | — |
3rd person plural | Arkansasuk | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
References
[edit]- ^ Arkansas in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Arkansas, from French Arcansas.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈar.kan.zas/, /arˈkan.zas/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -arkanzas, -anzas
- Syllabification: Ar‧kan‧sas
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas m inan (indeclinable)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas f (indeclinable)
- Arkansas (a river in the United States)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Arkansas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Arkansas.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Romanian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas n
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas m inan (genitive singular Arkansasu, declension pattern of dub)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
References
[edit]- “Arkansas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arkansas m
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Arkansas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Quapaw
- English terms derived from Lakota
- English terms derived from Dakota
- English terms derived from Siouan languages
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ænzəs
- Rhymes:English/ænzəs/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Arkansas, USA
- en:States of the United States
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Rivers in Colorado, USA
- en:Rivers in the United States
- en:Rivers in Kansas, USA
- en:Rivers in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Rivers in Arkansas, USA
- en:Places in Colorado, USA
- en:Places in Kansas, USA
- en:Places in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Arkansas, USA
- da:States of the United States
- da:Places in the United States
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Arkansas, USA
- fi:States of the United States
- fi:Places in the United States
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Finnish parfait-type nominals
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Arkansas, USA
- de:States of the United States
- de:Places in the United States
- Hungarian terms borrowed from English
- Hungarian terms derived from English
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms with manual IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒs
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒs/3 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Arkansas, USA
- hu:States of the United States
- hu:Places in the United States
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian unadapted borrowings from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ansas
- Rhymes:Italian/ansas/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian terms spelled with K
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Arkansas, USA
- it:States of the United States
- it:Places in the United States
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/arkanzas
- Rhymes:Polish/arkanzas/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Polish/anzas
- Rhymes:Polish/anzas/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Arkansas, USA
- pl:States of the United States
- pl:Places in the United States
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Rivers in the United States
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with K
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Arkansas, USA
- pt:States of the United States
- pt:Places in the United States
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian terms spelled with K
- Romanian neuter nouns
- ro:Arkansas, USA
- ro:States of the United States
- ro:Places in the United States
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak masculine nouns
- Slovak inanimate nouns
- sk:Arkansas, USA
- sk:States of the United States
- sk:Places in the United States
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ansas
- Rhymes:Spanish/ansas/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Arkansas, USA
- es:States of the United States
- es:Places in the United States