<html><div>In addition, in Algonkian, Massachusetts means the People of the <br>Big Hill Country; Connecticut means the Long Estuary; Narragansett means People of the Point; and Winooski, [VT] is not Polish, but means The Onions. Learned these while building from scratch a full-sized Sioux Tipi with our Scout troop maybe ten+ years ago for Indian Lore Merit Badge. LInda Husband David and I slept out in the tipi in our front field one January night and were completely warm and comfy with the fire and smoke flaps. Heard our first great-horned owl. Scouts also slept out in tipi several times--it held ten kids lying down or 25 sitting up--, won a Best-in-Show at a Scout festival, but kids could not use fires inside. Oh, Tomaquag means Beaver--name of local Narragansett museum. <br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: Pierre Abbat <phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org><br>To: fictionary@swarpa.net<br>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] Misqueme - to displease (Results)<br>Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 01:57:18 -0400<br><br>On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:43:00 AM EDT Hutch wrote:<br>> misqueme - n. - a geological feature that approximates the name of the<br>> feature as known by indigenous people local to the region surrounding the<br>> feature. Ex: The name of Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine, United States is<br>> a misqueme, since the name approximates an Abnaki word meaning "place where<br>> moose eat."<br>> by Fran Poodry 3<br>> David Randall: I am at Moosehead Lake in Maine, on vacation, right now!<br>> 2 Eric Cohen: Two points. And well-deserved, because i) this needs a word<br>> for it, and ii) the author went to the trouble of typing<br>> "Mooselookmeguntic".<br>> 1 Linda F Owens: One point for the indigenous geological forms. Chicopee<br>> [MA] means The Falls, in Algonkian, btw. My Dad worked in redundant<br>> Chicopee Falls for many decades.<br><br>There's a Hatchie River. There ought to be a Hatchisippi River or a <br>Sippihatchie river. Maybe even a Stolohatchisippi River.<br><br>Pierre<br>-- <br>Judaism uses a lunisolar calendar; Islam uses a solely lunar calendar.</p></html>
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