O Brave New Words: Native American Loanwords in Current English - Couverture souple

Cutler, Charles L.

 
9780806132464: O Brave New Words: Native American Loanwords in Current English

Synopsis

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." Charles L. Cutler is also the author of Connecticut's Revolutionary Press.

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Charles L. Cutler is also the author of Connecticut's Revolutionary Press.

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9780806126555: O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English

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ISBN 10 :  0806126558 ISBN 13 :  9780806126555
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1994
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