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The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed. (unabridged). New York: Random House. Siebert, Frank T. (1975). "Resurrecting Virginia Algonquian from the Dead: The Reconstituted and Historical Phonology of Powhatan". In Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, ed. James M. Crawford, pp. 285–453. Athens: University of ...
Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian is an Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages.It was formerly spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater Virginia.Following 1970s linguistic research by Frank Thomas Siebert, Jr., some of the language has been reconstructed with assistance from better-documented Algonquian languages, and attempts are being made to revive it.
Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...
Powhatan †) 27. Etchemin († ... the language family has given many words to English. Many eastern and midwestern U.S. states have names of Algonquian origin ...
The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the Algonquian languages.Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of at least 17 languages, whose speakers collectively occupied the Atlantic coast of North America and adjacent inland areas, from what are now the Maritimes of Canada to North Carolina.
The English "Potawatomi" is derived from the Ojibwe Boodewaadamii(g) (syncoped in the Ottawa as Boodewaadmii(g)).The Potawatomi name for themselves is Bodéwadmi (without syncope: Bodéwademi; plural: Bodéwadmik), a cognate of the Ojibwe form.
When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first. In biological nomenclature , organisms receive scientific names , which are formally in Latin , but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas.
Potawatomi (/ ˌ p ɒ t ə ˈ w ɒ t ə m i /, also spelled Pottawatomie; in Potawatomi Bodwéwadmimwen, Bodwéwadmi Zheshmowen, or Neshnabémwen) is a Central Algonquian language.It was historically spoken by the Pottawatomi people who lived around the Great Lakes in what are now Michigan and Wisconsin in the United States, and in southern Ontario in Canada.