Wampeeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wɒmˈpiː/
• (General American) IPA: /wɑmˈpiː/

語源 1

Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 / 黄皮 (wong pei, “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).

別の表記

• wampi, whampee

名詞

wampee (plural wampees)

1. A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
2. The fruit of this tree.

Further reading

• Clausena lansium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Clausena lansium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Perhaps from a Native American language of the Carolinas such as Carolina Algonquian. If the name was originally applied to a white variety, it could be from the Algqonian root for "white": compare Massachusett wompi (“white”), whence English wamp and wampum.

別の表記

• wampi

名詞

wampee (plural wampees)

1. Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata. (Can we verify this sense?)

   Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerel rush

   • 1914, American Game Protective Association, Bulletin, page 20:

     […] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).

   • 1920, American Swineherd: Published Monthly in the Interests of Swine Raising, page 31:

     Wampee is the Indian name for the tubers of certain swamp plants, […] […] (Pontederia cordata), which occurs in swamps from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Texas and […] the success they have obtained in hog raising by utilizing the native wampees suggests the possibility of developing a type of agriculture on the old rice lands in which not only native wampees but various other swamp tuberous plants cultivated in Japan […]

   • 2005, H. Peter Loewer, Peter Loewer, Native Perennials for the Southeast, page 155:

     Pontederia cordata, the pickerel weed, is a member of a small group of aquatic plants usually found in warmer regions of the world. Other common names include dog tongues and wampees. I don't know what the reference to dog tongue is, but the connection with wampees could be the similarity between the seeded pulp of the Chinese […]

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