Arkansas
See also: Arkansas'
English
Map of US highlighting Arkansas
Alternative forms
Etymology
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
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹ.kənˌsɔ/, (cot-caught merger) /-ɑ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (US, now nonstandard in reference to the state) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈkæn.zəs/ (see usage notes)
- Rhymes: -ænzəs
Proper noun
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
- 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.
Translations
US state
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See also
| 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
- 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
Danish
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsɑs/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠ɑ̝s̠] (declension: risti)
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsoː/, [ˈɑ̝rkɑ̝ns̠o̞ː] (declension: maa)
- Syllabification(key): Ar‧kan‧sas
Declension
- 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
German
Pronunciation
- 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
Arkansas n (proper noun, genitive Arkansas' or (with an article) Arkansas)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒrkɒnzɒs]
- Hyphenation: Ar‧kan‧sas
- Rhymes: -ɒs
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- arkansasi
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arˈkan.sas/[1]
- Rhymes: -ansas
- Hyphenation: Ar‧kàn‧sas
References
- Arkansas in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈar.kan.zas/, /arˈkan.zas/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -anzas
- Syllabification: Ar‧kan‧sas
Further reading
- Arkansas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aʁˈkɐ̃.sɐs/ [ahˈkɐ̃.sɐs]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /aɾˈkɐ̃.sɐs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aʁˈkɐ̃.sɐʃ/ [aχˈkɐ̃.sɐʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aɻˈkɐ̃.sas/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐɾˈkɐ̃.sɐʃ/
Romanian
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈarkansas]
Proper noun
Arkansas m inan (genitive singular Arkansasu, declension pattern of dub)
- Arkansas (a state of the United States)
References
- “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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɾˈkansas/ [aɾˈkãn.sas]
- Rhymes: -ansas
- Syllabification: Ar‧kan‧sas
Related terms
- arkansés
See also
Arkansas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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