Reactions to Indian Place Names
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles F Hockett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118-118 |
| Publication date | 1950-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/453903 |
| OpenAlex | W2323349530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
OUR CONTINENT is thickly studded with geographical names of Indian origin. Chicago is Fox'1 eka-ko'hi 'onion' (derived in Fox from seka-kwa 'skunk'; the animal name is from some East Coast Algonquian cognate); Illinois is Miami-Peoria-Illinois, cognate to Fox ineniwa 'man' (the former group of dialects retains proto-Algonquian 1, replaced by n in Fox); Michigan is cognate with Fox me'ikami 'big lake'; Wisconsin may be from Potawatomi weE-ks-anyak 'where it is cold-the north,' but is more likely from a kindred Menomini form. Shawnee and Shawano (towns in Oklahoma and Wisconsin) are Algonquian 'south'; Wabeno (town in Wisconsin) is Algonquian 'east'; Wapekoneta (town in Ohio) is 'rat'; Ogema, spelled variously as a town or lake name in Minnesota and elsewhere, is 'chief'; Ishpeming, also with various spellings, is 'up aloft.' A complete list of place names from the Algonquian languages alone would run to hundreds of items
Linguistics · Toponymy · Lexicography and Language Studies · History · Philosophy
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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