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English……………………………….Powhatan
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hickory……………………………….pakahikare (“it is brayed”)
hominy……………………………….usekutehemen (“crushed by pounding”)
moccasin…………………………….makasin (shoe)
opossum……………………………..apasum (“white animal”)
persimmon……………………………pasimenan (“dried fruit”)
pone ([version] of cornbread)…….apan (“baked”)
raccoon………………………………arakun (“he scratches with the hands”)
roanoke (thin shell-bead money)….rarenawok (“smoothed shells”)
terrapin……………………………….turupeu (sea turtle)
tomahawk…………………………….tamehakan (“chopper”)
werowance…………………………..wirowantesu (“he is wealthy”)
And other miscellaneous words;
From Haile’s list:
chum (friend [or canoe companion from chemah or chemay in Jamestown Voyages])
pecan [Siebert notes as a later northern Algonquian addition]
squaw [as in werowansqua]
peak (thick shell money)
wow! (from “waugh, their word of wonder” (Strachey word list)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/jame1/moretti-langholtz/appendixc.htm
Up here the 2 Algonquin speaking people are the Northern Blackfoot and the many bands of the Cree people.
The Cree have different ways to make exclamations, one is “nitch” more are Chaw, muh, and like here Wuh or waugh.
The Blackfeet have , saa, naa, and tsih, if something is dirty or of an embarassing nature it’s, Nu-h huh!
There’s more I am sure but this is what is most often heard.
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