Bronx 的词源

纽约市的一个区，以乔纳斯 Bronck 的名字命名，他于1641年在此定居。

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]

乔纳斯·布朗克于1639年抵达新阿姆斯特丹，他的名字在布朗克区、布朗克公园和布朗克维尔——这些地方都在纽约——得以延续。他很可能是斯堪的纳维亚人，可能是丹麦人，最初似乎来自法罗群岛的托尔斯港，那里的父亲是一位路德教会的牧师。在布朗克生活的时代，法罗群岛属于丹麦-挪威，并且已经被挪威人定居。那时岛上的官方语言是丹麦语…… 如果仅凭名字来判断，布朗克也可能是瑞典人，因为布伦克这个名字在瑞典很常见。[约翰·奥卢夫·埃夫延，《1630-1674年纽约的斯堪的纳维亚移民》，明尼阿波利斯，1916年]

带有讽刺意味的 Bronx cheer（“通过闭嘴吹气发出的声音，通常舌头夹在嘴唇之间”——《牛津英语词典》）最早见于1921年。