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語源

From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌtɛnəˈsiː/
• (米国発音, pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˌtɪnəˈsiː/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˌtenəˈsiː/
• 韻: -iː

固有名詞

Tennessee

1. A state of the United States.
   • 2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest‎, performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:

     Fa la la la
     Fa la la lee
     Now let me go, my honey oh
     back to Tennessee
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die

   • 2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN‎:

     The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.

2. A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
3. A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
4. A male given name.
5. A female given name.

派生語

名詞

Tennessee (plural Tennessees)

1. The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
   • 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303:

     The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.

参考

Further reading

• Tennessee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia