foochow/hok-ciu/福州

foochow 一词是怎么产生的? 是根据"fuzhou"还是"hok-ciu"音译而来

It should be from Fuzhou as older style Romanizations like the Wade-Giles system uses "ch" to stand for the Pinyin "zh" sound.

Tim

[ 本帖最後由 timluo 於 2007-10-15 00:02 編輯 ]

ㄣ, 的確是取自官話音

As far as I know, "Fuh-chau" was used by the first Westerners who came to China, and then it was standardized as "Foochow"/"Fuchow" in the late 19th century. Both came from Mandarin without doubt.

In the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary, the entry of "福州" is written as below:

HOKCHEW, HOKSIEU, AU-CHEO , etc., n.p. These are forms which the names of the great Chinese port of Fuh-chau, the capital of Fuhkien, takes in many old works. They, in fact, imitate the pronunciation in the Fuh-kien dialect, which is Hokchiu; Fuh-kien similarly being called Hoh-kien.

1585. -- "After they had travelled more than halfe a league in the suburbs of the cittie of Aucheo, they met with a post that came from the vizroy." -- Mendoza, ii. 78.

1616. -- "Also this day arrived a small China bark or soma from Hochchew, laden with silk and stuffes." -- Cocks, i. 219.

It puzzles me where this name Aucheo came from.