核心畫面

One way to hold Chippewa is as a single name doing three jobs. Picture the people themselves, standing together: from that one group you can point at the whole of them, at one person inside it, or at the words they speak. English does not change the name for any of these — only the grammar around it moves.

Chippewa 可以想成一個名字,站在一群人前面。從這一群人出發,你可以指三個方向。往外看整體,就是 the Ch更多收起Chippewa 可以想成一個名字,站在一群人前面。從這一群人出發,你可以指三個方向。往外看整體,就是 the Chippewa,這個族。往裡面看一個人,就是 a Chippewa。往他們嘴裡說的話看,就是 Chippewa 這個語言。英文沒有為這三件事換字。變的只是前後的文法:the 加複數動詞是整族,a 是一個人,speak 或 in 後面不加冠詞的是語言。

From the word’s history

Chippewa comes from the people's own word in their language, Ojibwe, taken from an eastern dialect in which the first vowel is reduced. Compare the earlier English spelling Ojibwa. The form Chippewa is recorded in English from the mid 18th century.

Chippewa 這個字來自族人自己的語言:Ojibwe 語中的 ojibwe,取自一種東部方言,開頭的母音變弱後,英文就寫成了 Chippewa。更早進入英文的拼法是 Ojibwa。英文從十八世紀中葉開始有 Chippewa 的紀錄。也就是說,族名、人、語言三個用法共用同一個來源,難怪英文沒有把它們拆成不同的字。

Wiktionary entries for Chippewa (kaikki extract, source_refs kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1133720651 and :1133723173), supplied in the evidence packet

One branch

族群與族人

同一群人,一個往外看整體,一個往裡看個人;差別只在冠詞和動詞的單複數。

noun · C1

The Chippewa are a Native American people. In English the name is also written Ojibwe, and the Longman entry links the Chippewa to the US state of Michigan. Used with the and a plural verb when you mean the people as a whole group.

奇普瓦族(族群整體)