Appalachian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Appalachian in British English:
UK [ˌæpə'leɪtʃɪən]
How to pronounce Appalachian in American English:
US [ˌæpə'leɪtʃɪrn]
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- Adjective:
- in or relating to Appalachia
Word Origin
- Appalachian
- in reference to the North American mountain range, c. 1600, Mountaynes Apalatsi; written apalachen by Spanish explorers and originally in reference only to the southern end of the range. Originally the name of the Apalachee, a Muskogean people of northwestern Florida, perhaps from Apalachee abalahci "other side of the river" or Hitchiti (Muskogean) apalwahči "dwelling on one side." Spelling shifted under influence of adjectives in -ian.
Example
- 1. He studiedcreative writing at appalachian state university and unc-chapel hill .
- 2. A member of an iroquoian people formerly living in the appalachian mountains but now chiefly in oklahoma .
- 3. These too are kept and repaired by people who love the appalachian trail .
- 4. The roads seem to have been chiselled and corkscrewed into the craggy appalachian mountains .
- 5. Law enforcers on the west coast of the us and in the middle states straddled by the foothills of the appalachian mountains are reporting a common trend .