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Lang->Place Names: American indian place names
Posted on Monday, January 07 @ 10:57:56 PST (1334 reads)

AUTHOR: Borgna Brunner

About half of the states in the US got their names from Indian words. The name of Kentucky comes from an Iroquoian word (Kentahten), which means "land of tomorrow."

Connecticut's name comes from the Mohican word (Quinnehtukqut), which means "beside the long tidal river." And the word "Podunk," meant to describe a insignificant town out in the middle of nowhere, comes from a Natick Indian word meaning "swampy place."

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Lang->Place Names: Changing Offensive Names
Posted on Monday, October 10 @ 13:57:40 PDT (6019 reads)

Wahkon writes

Author: Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

My international movement to rename Minnesota’s Rum River is steadily gaining more and more support. Recently, several Minnesota legislators sent me letters wherein they thanked me for the work that I am doing to change this river’s derogatory name.

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Lang->Place Names: How many Native American words do you know? Probably more than you think.
Posted on Monday, July 01 @ 01:32:51 PDT (68767 reads)

KEYWORDS: Native American languages English language origins vocabulary place name origins animal names origins of state names

Suppose you had been one of the early explorers or immigrants to North America. You would have found many things in this new land which were previously unknown to you.

The handiest way of filling voids in your vocabulary would have been to ask local Native Americans what words they used.

The early colonists began borrowing words from friendly Native Americans almost from the moment of their first contact, and many of those names remain in our everyday English language today.

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Lang->Place Names: Origin and meaning of place names in the Northwest Territories
Posted on Wednesday, February 20 @ 00:01:52 PST (5578 reads)

Keywords: origin and meaning of place names in the Northwest Territory first nations languages Place Names Inuktitut PLACE NAMES Dene Athapaskan language northwest territories place names

Many common place names have their origins in First Nations languages. This article gives the tribal origin and meaning of some places in the Northwest Territories which may be familiar to you.

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Lang->Place Names: Origin and meaning of place names in the Yukon
Posted on Tuesday, February 19 @ 23:47:50 PST (4545 reads)

Keywords: origin and meaning of place names in the Yukon first nations languages Gwitchin Place Names Inuktitut PLACE NAMES Dene Athapaskan language yukon place names

Many common place names have their origins in First Nations languages. This article gives the tribal origin and meaning of some places in the Yukon which may be familiar to you.

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