O Brave New Words: Native American Loanwords in Current English

Type

Book

Authors

Charles L. Cutler

ISBN 10

0806132469

ISBN 13

9780806132464

Tags

Criticism, Native American, Foreign Language Study & Reference, Etymology, Linguistics, Native American Studies, History, Social Sciences

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 FloridaMoose: Eastern Abenaki mos; Papoose: Narragansett papoos, child; Squash: Narragansett askutasquash; Texas: from a Caddo word, meaning "friends" or "allies." - from Amzon

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