Indian Local Names: With Their Interpretation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Stephen G. Boyd

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ISBN 10 : 1332335632 ISBN 13 : 9781332335633

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the stories behind place names with clear, compact etymologies.

This reference compiles hundreds of Indian local names and traces their meanings in a wide range of languages and cultures. It reveals how geography, history, and language blend to shape the map you use every day.

This edition offers accessible, bite‑size explanations of why places have their names, from rivers and hills to towns and seas. You’ll see how a single word can carry a cousin to ancient myths, old villages, and distant languages.

• See how familiar places—like Ohio, Ottawa, and Detroit—carry their roots in native and colonial languages.


• Explore the variety of linguistic sources, from Gaelic and Welsh to Mohawk and Creek.


• Understand the methods readers can use to trace a name’s history and meaning.


• Find concise, ready-to-use definitions that enrich travel, study, and everyday reading.

Ideal for readers who love history, geography, and the origins of the places we inhabit.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Indian Local Names: With Their Interpretation

Whilst engaged in teaching many years ago, I became impressed with the idea that the significantion of the local names might be used by teachers not only in imparting in many case a better idea of the object named, but also in enlivening the too frequently dull monotony of class recitation.

With this impression, I commenced the collection of the signification of local names, found in all parts of the world, of all classes and in all languages. Of course the work progressed slowly, especially as I rejected all definitions known to be merely conjectural in their character, and received even traditional ones with extreme caution.

As the work progressed, however, my interest in the subject increased, and in order to avail myself of the very best authority on the subject in the English language, I even ordered for my library from England during the Civil War, when the rate of exchange was well nigh at its highest point.

Some years subsequent to this, whilst spending some months in Harrisburg, Pa., in a position which gave me free use of the State library, I procured from its shelves the nucleus of my present collection of Indian names.

It was no part of my purpose at the outstart to collect material for publication, but such has been the pleasure derived from the study of the subject, and such the evident advantage of a knowledge of the signification of local names, not only to the teacher, but to all persons making any pretensions to culture, indeed even to casual readers of the current literature of the day that I have concluded to publish the result of my labors, especially as, so far as known to me, the matter I have on hand is not now within reach of the public in any practical form, but scattered through many volumes, and much of it indeed, especially that relating to Indian names, not in print at all.

Upon concluding to publish my collection, my first thought wa...

Présentation de l'éditeur

Indian Local Names: With Their Interpretation By Stephen G. Boyd

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332335632
• ISBN 13: 9781332335633
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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