| 单词 | 阿拉瓦 |
| 释义 | 〔Arawak〕The Arawakan language of the Arawak.阿拉瓦克人的阿拉瓦克语〔ceiba〕Spanish [probably from Arawakan] 西班牙语 [可能源自阿拉瓦开语] 〔arrowroot〕The arrowroot is just one of many plants that the European settlers and explorers discovered in the New World.The Arawak, a people who formerly lived on the Caribbean Islands and continue to inhabit certain regions of Guiana, named this plantaru-aru, meaning "meal of meals,” so called because they thought very highly of the starchy, nutritious meal made from the arrowroot.The plant also had medicinal value because its tubers could be used to draw poison from wounds inflicted by poison arrows.The medicinal application of the roots provided the impetus for English speakers to remakearu-aru into arrowroot, first recorded in English in 1696. Folk etymology—the process by which an unfamiliar element in a word is changed to resemble a more familiar word,often one that is semantically associated with the word being refashioned—has triumphed once again,thus denying us the direct borrowing ofaru-aru and giving us arrowroot instead. 竹芋仅是欧洲探险家和拓荒者在新大陆发现的多种植物中的一种。曾居住在加勒比海各岛，现仍在圭亚那部分地区居住的阿拉瓦克人把这种植物称为aru-aru 意思是“餐中餐”， 这样称呼是因为他们非常看重这种用竹芋粉做成的淀粉状的，非常有营养的食物。这种植物同时还有医疗价值，因为其块茎可用来从毒箭箭伤处把毒吸出来。这种植物的医疗作用促使讲英语的人重新将aru-aru 命名为 arrowroot ，1696年首次在英语中予以记载。 词的通俗变化就是比较陌生的词被比较熟悉的词所替代的过程，常常是被一个语义上与被翻新的词有联系的词。这里，通俗词汇学又一次取得胜利，不允许我们直接借用aru-aru ，而是另给了我们一个 arrowroot 。 〔Arawakan〕A member of a widespread group of Indian peoples living in an area of South America that includes parts of Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, the Amazon basin of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and formerly most of the Greater Antilles.阿拉瓦克族：生活在南美地区的一支广泛分布的印第安人的一支，该地区包括哥伦比亚、委内瑞拉、圭亚纳，巴西亚马孙盆地，巴拉圭，玻利维亚，秘鲁的部分区域，和早期大安的列斯群岛大部〔Taino〕A member of an Arawak people of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas who became extinct under Spanish colonization during the 16th century.泰诺人：大安的列斯群岛和巴哈马群岛上阿拉瓦克族的一支，在16世纪西班牙殖民时期灭绝〔Calinago〕A member of a Caribbean Indian people inhabiting the Lesser Antilles.阿拉瓦克族：居住在小安的列斯群岛的加勒比印第安人中的一个民族〔Arawakan〕The largest and most important Indian linguistic family in South America, consisting of the languages spoken by the Arawakan peoples.阿拉瓦克语：南美最大也最重要的印第安语系，由阿拉瓦克人所说的语言构成〔Arawak〕A member of a South American Indian people formerly inhabiting much of the Greater Antilles and now living chiefly in certain regions of Guiana.阿拉瓦克人：南美印第安族成员，早先居住在大安的列斯群岛大部，现在主要生活于圭亚纳的某些地区〔henequen〕[perhaps of Arawakan origin] [或许来源于阿拉瓦语系] |
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