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語源

From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant vagina; this has been discredited. The first English attestation of the word is found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622, where the "squa sachim or Massachusets Queen" is mentioned in a journal entry from September 20, 1621.

発音

• IPA: /skwɔː/
• 韻: -ɔː

名詞

squaw (plural squaws)

1. (now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
   • 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:

     The Indian maids, of course, turned out to be a few fat old squaws who knew all about white men.

使用する際の注意点

• Previously used neutrally, the word began to be used as a term of contempt in the late 1800s; it is now generally considered offensive. See the Wikipedia article on the word on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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