Manhattanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the earlier form Manna-hata recorded by Dutch travelers and settlers, from its name in Unami, the local Algonquian language. The name generally understood to be a compound of Unami mënatay (“island”) or Munsee munahan (compare Abenaki manahan) with another element.

According to a report by John Heckewelder, the name is connected to a wooded area whose trees were suitable for making bows. Linguist Ives Goddard explains the early forms Manna-hatta(n) and Mannahachtink as spellings of Munsee manaháhtaan (“place for gathering the wood to make bows”) and its related locative form manaháhteenk. This interpretation breaks down the word as a compound of manah- (“gather”) +‎ -aht (“bow”) +‎ -aan (“place”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mænˈhætn̩/
• (General American) IPA: /mænˈhætn̩/, [mænˈhæʔn̩]
• (New York City) enPR: mənhătən, IPA: /mənˈhætn̩/, [mn̩ˈhætn̩]
• (米国発音, regional) IPA: [mn̩ˈhæʔɪ̃n̩], [mn̩ˈhæʔn̩]
• ハイフネーション: Man‧hat‧tan

固有名詞

Manhattan

1. An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
2. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.

   Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World

   Meronyms: Harlem, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, World Trade Center, Battery

   Near-synonyms: New York County, County of New York (coterminous)

3. An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.
   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.

   • 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian‎:

     Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   3. A township in Will County, Illinois, United States.
   4. A village in Will County, Illinois, United States.
   5. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Indiana, United States.
   6. A city, the county seat of Riley County, Kansas, United States.
   7. A town in Gallatin County, Montana, United States.
   8. An unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States.

派生語

名詞

Manhattan (plural Manhattans)

1. A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.
   • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):

     Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.

派生語

• Vanhattan

参照

Further reading

• Manhattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Manhattan (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia