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Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi–English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (Hopi pronunciation: [hoˈpiˌikwa laˈβajˌtɯtɯˌβɛni]) [1] is a Hopi–English bilingual dictionary compiled by the Hopi Dictionary Project, a research team based at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Biographical Dictionary of American Architects. Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Blake's Biographical Dictionary; Bowling, Lawson, Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary. Calarco, Tom, People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary.
The American common name "chigger" shares its origin with the jigger (a type of flea), deriving from chigoe, ultimately from Galibi Carib siko / chico or, alternatively, from Wolof or Yoruba jiga ("insect") [citation needed] Chili pepper (capsicum various species) pepper: Nahuatl: From chīlli ("pepper") [citation needed] Chinchilla: rodent ...
The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock Finder List and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English Finder List. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-030-8. Mithun, Marianne (1999). Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montaukett and Shinnecock) is an Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.