Bronx 的詞源

紐約市的一個行政區，以在1641年定居於此的喬納斯· Bronck 命名。

Jonas Bronck, who arrived at New Amsterdam in 1639, and whose name is perpetuated in Bronx Borough, Bronx Park, Bronxville — in New York — was a Scandinavian, in all probability a Dane and originally, as it seems, from Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, where his father was a pastor in the Lutheran Church. Faroe then belonged to Denmark-Norway and had been settled by Norwegians. The official language of the island in Bronck's days was Danish. ... Bronck may have been a Swede if we judge by the name alone for the name of Brunke is well known in Sweden. [John Oluf Evjen, "Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674," Minneapolis, 1916]

喬納斯·布朗克於1639年抵達新阿姆斯特丹，他的名字在紐約的布朗克斯區、布朗克斯公園和布朗克斯維爾得以永久紀念，他很可能是一個斯堪的納維亞人，很可能是丹麥人，最初來自法羅羣島的托爾斯哈文，他的父親是路德會教堂的牧師。當時，法羅羣島屬於丹麥-挪威，曾被挪威人定居。布朗克時代島上的官方語言是丹麥語。...如果僅從名字判斷，布朗克可能是瑞典人，因爲布倫克這個名字在瑞典很有名。[約翰·奧盧夫·埃夫傑恩，《紐約的斯堪的納維亞移民，1630-1674》，明尼阿波利斯，1916年]

1929年，人們開始使用貶義的 Bronx cheer（“通過閉合的嘴脣吹氣，通常用舌頭夾住”-《牛津英語詞典》）。