英和和英

語源

Back-formation from Appalachian.

発音

• (Southern 米国発音) IPA: /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/

  韻: -ætʃə

• (Northern 米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/

  韻: -eɪʃə

• ハイフネーション: Ap‧pa‧la‧chia

固有名詞

Appalachia

1. A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama, usually excluding New York State and New England.
   • 2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 130:

     A thick forest of pine trees encircles their subdivision, and beyond that, in the distance, is the shadow of the mountain, one of those low hills at the cusp of Appalachia in northern Alabama.

2. A town in Wise County, Virginia.
3. (geology) An island landmass occurring during most of the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago) that now makes up the eastern half of North America.