English words drawn from the Algonquian language include moose, terrapin & this other word for groundhog
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How Are Groundhogs Connected to an Endangered Language ...  Jan 31, 2014 ... Tribes that spoke dialects of Algonquian include the Blackfoot and Cheyenne, Ojibwa ... English derives several other words from Algonquian languages. ... I know this isn't related to groundhogs, but I didn't know the words moose and ... I understand that the word is from the ancient native language, but...
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Appendix:English terms of Native North American origin - Wiktionary  Terms from language families spoken on both sides of the Canal, or in the .... an Algonquian word for "wolverine" only later transferred to the South American animal, ... sled/sleigh designed to be drawn by one horse"  shortening of "tom-pung", from ... applied to the marten, though other times misapplied to the groundhog).
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Algonquian Words in English (Algonkian Indian ... - Native language  More words have been borrowed into English from Algonquian Languages than from all other American Indian languages combined--not ... animals (caribou, wapiti, moose, chipmunk, raccoon, muskrat, opossum, woodchuck, terrapin, skunk,)...
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List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas ...  Apishamore : From a word in an Algonquian ... by cognates from other Algonquian languages (e.g....
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Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact ... - JStor  Tammany, terrapin, tomahawk, totem, woodchuck, etc. ... WORDS OF ALGONKIAN ORIGIN IN AMERICAN ENGLISH. ... rivation as quick-hatch (from Cree kikwd'kes, or the cognate word in ... literally "big angular fruit," -both contain the Algonkian root ... language from which it was taken "a person of distinction, chief, elder...
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Origin of the Names of 28 US States - american indian source  Connecticut -From Mohican and other Algonquin words meaning "long river place." Delaware ... Oklahoma -Choctaw coined word meaning red man, proposed by Rev. Allen Wright, Choctaw-speaking Indian, said: Okla humma is red people.
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Like extreme opposites, 5 letter, 2nd letter O, crossword  Like extreme opposites. Else clues.  ___ bear.  ___ bear (Arctic beast).  ___ bear (Canadian Arctic ... Bear or circle.  Bear type.  Bear variety.  Can you bear this?  Cap or bear.  Cap or bear ... Word before bear or shift.  Word with bear or...
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History: American Indians and the ...  North-South-East-West: American Indians and the Natural World ... series of wars and feuds among the Iroquois nations nearly destroyed their civilization. ... The Europeans called the beads wampum, from wampumpeag, a word used by Indians in ... Certain elders were designated to memorize the various events and treaty...
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Mooselookmeguntic and Sopchoppy: America's lakes and rivers ...  Sep 7, 2011 ... They just have to look or sound peculiar, and when they do, I feel an ... I have a particular preoccupation with odd place names, which began...
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A Glossary Oji we Words, Phrases - Erdrich  Slowly the language has crept into my writing, replacing a word here, ... English. Often Erdrich's use of the scattered Ojibwe words and phrases is ..... Bineshii - Small Bird. .... spelled kookookoo(k). .... owah - Oh! Birchbark 244, "exclamation of.
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Language Log  Bad science reporting again: the Eskimos are back  Jan 15, 2013 ... ... claim that Eskimos have dozens, or even hundreds, of words for snow. ... Some have even gone as far as to name it the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. ... two languages had in common, not that Inuit was quantitatively unusual. ... view on it (linguists are much less interested in "X has many words for Y"...
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Dutch Language - Vander Sande Genealogy  Nevertheless, in many cases Dutch and English words of Germanic origin resemble each ... words must have travelled from German to Dutch (and vice versa) in large ... in English denoting African animals, which look very much like Dutch words. ... which is also locally called elk), and the antelope is called elandantilope (lit.
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native word meaning-One Word - Episode 27: Thanksgiving (Native ...  One Word - Episode 25: Christopher Columbus (Native Americans)  Quiz # Question. Its name comes from a Native American word meaning near the great hill...
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Woodchuck dictionary definition | woodchuck defined - YourDictionary  Also called groundhog; also called regionally whistle pig. ... is a considerable variety of migratory song-birds, which are common to the more northern states.
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1) Believed to derive from Choctaw words, alba, meaning plants or ...  gather. 2) Russian version of an Aleutian (Eskimo) word, alakshak, which means ... 8) This state's name means land of the Indians. 9) Indian word variously...
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Re: Interesting Facts - Pinecam.com  View topic - Interesting Facts  Reindeer got their name because they belong to the deer family, and they ... The name caribou comes from the French word Mi'kmaq qalipu, meaning snow shoveler, referring to its habit of pawing through the snow for food. .... Search and Rescue, Staunton State Park Activities, Indian Hills Fire Rescue...
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Word Games - American English  In addition, form a third word by adding a letter at the beginning ... Below is a scrambled list of animals and foods commonly found ... I'm not really dumb; lack of sleep made me forget the answers. 3. ... What kind of an ant works with figures? ... Four letters in common. ... Use the definitions to identify the words ending in city.
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jeopardy/177_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  3-LETTER WORDS | A fedora, homburg or derby | a hat. right: Nancy. Wrong: ... BROADWAY | 4-letter play about 9-lived creatures | Cats. right: Michael. Wrong:.
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List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas ...  Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or...
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Groundhog - Wikipedia  Emerged from hibernation in February, groundhog takes leaves to line the burrow nest or toilet chamber. The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, or whistlepig, is a rodent of the ... Monax was an Indian name of the woodchuck, which meant "the digger". :300301 Young groundhogs may be called...
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jeopardy/305_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Value: $1600. Number: 9. UNGULATES | The name of this piglike mammal with a short movable snout is from a Brazilian Indian word meaning "thick" | the tapir.