O brave new words! : Native American loanwords in current English
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O brave new words! : Native American loanwords in current English
University of Oklahoma Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index
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ISBN 9780806126555
Description
This work offers information on more than one thousand North American Indian, Inuit and Aleut words in the English vocabulary. Although little acknowledged, these words are indispensable today in the way that they name animals and fish that sustained Indians and early settlers.
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: pbk ISBN 9780806132464
Description
Native American loanwords are a crucial, though little acknowledged, part of the English language. This book shows how the more than one-thousand current loanwords were adopted and demonstrates how the changing relationships between Indians and European settlers can be traced in the rate of loanword borrowing and the kinds of words adopted.Appalachian: from the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, from the Muskogean name of the Apalachee tribe of Florida
Moose: Eastern Abenaki mos; Papoose: Narragansett papoos, child; Squash: Narragansett askutasquash; Texas: from a Caddo word, meaning ""friends"" or ""allies.""
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