O Brave New Words: Native American Loanwords in Current English (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780806132464)

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.

Author: Charles L. Cutler
ISBN-10: 0806132469
ISBN-13: 9780806132464
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/1994
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.37w x 0.88d