One way to hold Cajun: start with a group of families. They were French speakers from Acadia in eastern Canada, and they ended up in the warm, wet south of Louisiana. Their name travelled with them and wore down in the mouth — Acadien, Cadien, Cajun. Everything else the word touches is something those families carry: the French they still speak, the music they dance to, the pepper in their cooking. So the word is really one word: a people, and then whatever wears their name.

可以想成先有一群人。他們是從加拿大東部 Acadia 來的法語居民,後來落腳在路易斯安那州潮濕溫暖的南部。名字跟著他們一路南下,在嘴裡越唸越短:Acadien → Cadien → Cajun。這個字後來碰到的每樣東西,都是這群人身上帶著的:他們講的法語、他們跳舞的音樂、他們菜裡的胡椒。所以其實從頭到尾只有一個字:先是一群人,然後是所有掛著他們名字的東西。

From the word’s history

An Anglicisation of Acadian French Cadien, itself a shortened Acadien ('Acadian'), reflecting the Acadian dialect turning /dj/ into a j-like sound. The people's name is literally the place their families came from, worn short.

這是阿卡迪亞法語 Cadien 進入英文後的拼法,而 Cadien 又是 Acadien(阿卡迪亞人)掉了開頭的樣子;阿卡迪亞方言把 d 加 i 的音唸成接近英文 j 的音,所以寫成 Cajun。族群的名字,其實就是他們家族來的那個地方唸短了。

Wiktionary, "Cajun"

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