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Kike is an ethnic slur for a Jewish person. ==Etymology== The source of the term is uncertain, but the ''Encyclopedia of Swearing'' stated the most reasonable and most likely origin of the term is the one proposed by Leo Rosten,〔 according to whom: According to Rosten, U.S. Jews continued to sign with an 'O' in place of an 'X' for several decades, resulting in the nickname ''kike'' spreading wherever they went. According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', it may be an alteration of the endings –''ki'' or –''ky'' common in the personal names of Jews in eastern Europe who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century. A variation or expansion of this theory published in ''Our Crowd'', by Stephen Birmingham, postulates that the term "kike" was coined as a put-down by the assimilated U.S. Jews from Germany to identify eastern European and Russian Jews: "Because many Russian () names ended in 'ki', they were called 'kikes'—a German Jewish contribution to the American vernacular. The name then proceeded to be co-opted by non-Jews as it gained prominence in its usage in society, and was later used as a general derogatory slur." One more theory traces the origin of the term much earlier in time, to the 16th century Pope Clement VIII, noted for his anti-Jewish stance. Among other things, he issued a prohibition on the study of the Talmud,〔S. Wendehorst, "Katholische Kirche und Juden in der Frühen Neuzeit" 1.3 "Zensur des Talmud", following Willchad Paul Eckert, "Catholizmus zwischen 1580 und 1848" in Karl Heinrich Rengstorf and Siegfried Kortzfleisch, eds. ''Kirche und Sinagoge'' II (Stuttgart, 1970) p. 232.〕 in which he made reference to the "blind ((ラテン語:caeca)) obstinacy" of the Jews. According to this theory, "caeca" developed eventually into "kike". Compounding the mysterious origin of this term, in 1864 in the UK the word ''ike'' or ''ikey'' was used as a derogatory term for Jews, which derived from the name "Isaac", a common Jewish name.〔Encyclopedia of Swearing: Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English Speaking World/ Geoffrey Hughes. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006〕〔New Dictionary of American Slang/ edited by Robert L. Chapman. New York: Harper & Crow. c1986〕 The earliest recorded uses of the word were in 1900〔(The Empire of the Ghetto, by Adolphe Danziger, "Copyrighted by the Author, 1900" ) in Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books, Volume 6, No. 1 (1901), p. 213〕 and 1904.〔〔(Kim Pearson's ''Rhetoric of Race'' ) by Eric Wolarsky. The College of New Jersey.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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