Indian 的詞源

“印度次大陸，喜馬拉雅山以南的中亞地區”，曾經通常用於指代“亞洲”； 自1947年起，特指印度共和國，古英語 India， Indea，源自拉丁語 India，源自希臘語 India，“印度河地區”，後用於指代印度河以外的地區，源自 Indos，“印度河”，也指“印度人”，源自古波斯語 Hindu，指信德省，源自梵語 sindhu，“河流”。

更常見的中古英語形式是 Ynde 或 Inde，源自古法語（因此有 Indies）。India 這個形式從16世紀開始再次在英語中盛行，可能受到西班牙或葡萄牙的影響。

"Frost's departure", meaning a period of warm, dry, and hazy weather, occurs after the first frost of the year. This phenomenon usually takes place from mid-September to nearly December, depending on the location. The term originated in 1774 in North American English (also used in eastern Canada), perhaps because it was first observed in regions still inhabited by Native Americans or because the Indigenous people first reported it to the Europeans in the upper Mississippi valley to the west of the Appalachians. There is no evidence to support a connection between the term and the color of fall leaves or a season of renewed Native American attacks on settlements due to renewed warm weather (a widespread explanation dating back to at least the 1820s).

It is the American version of the British All-Hallows summer, the French été de la Saint-Martin (feast day Nov. 11), etc. Also colloquial were St. Luke's summer (or little summer), a period of warm weather occurring around St. Luke's day (Oct. 18). An older and simpler name for it was autumn-spring (1630s).