chimayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From French Chimay, sometimes further derived via Vulgar Latin, from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“pretty, pleasant”).

固有名詞

Chimay

1. A city and municipality in Hainault, Belgium.

語源 2

Variant of earlier Chiamay, from Portuguese Lago de Chiamay in João de Barros's 1553 Décadas da Ásia, Dec. III, Bk. II, presumably from the Chiamay and Chiammay in manuscripts of Fernão Mendes Pinto's Peregrinação, variously referring to an imaginary lake and to the kingdom and town of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Thai เชียงใหม่ (Chiiang Mai), from เชียง (chiiang, “walled city”) + ใหม่ (mài, “new”).

固有名詞

Chimay

1. (geography, historical) An imaginary lake thought for centuries to exist in southern China or northern Indochina, once believed to be the source of the Brahmaputra or Meghna, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, and the Chao Phraya Rivers.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:

     CHIMAY, the name of a great lake, lying in the province of Acham, between the Eaſt-Indies and China.

別の表記

• Chiamay, Chiammay, Chiamai, Chiang Mai, Chaamay, Chiama, Cunebete, Singapamor, Jamahey

参照

• Michael Pearson, "Lake Chiamay: Asia's Mythical Mother of Rivers", The Globe: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, No. 83 (2018), pp. 43 ff.