[Fictionary] Misqueme - to displease (Results)

[Pierre Abbat]

On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:43:00 AM EDT Hutch wrote:
> misqueme - n. - a geological feature that approximates the name of the
> feature as known by indigenous people local to the region surrounding the
> feature. Ex: The name of Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine, United States is
> a misqueme, since the name approximates an Abnaki word meaning "place where
> moose eat."
> by Fran Poodry 3
> David Randall: I am at Moosehead Lake  in Maine, on vacation, right now!
> 2 Eric Cohen: Two points. And well-deserved, because i) this needs a word
> for it, and ii) the author went to the trouble of typing
> "Mooselookmeguntic".
> 1 Linda F Owens: One point for the indigenous geological forms. Chicopee
> [MA] means The Falls, in Algonkian, btw. My Dad worked in redundant
> Chicopee Falls for many decades.

There's a Hatchie River. There ought to be a Hatchisippi River or a 
Sippihatchie river. Maybe even a Stolohatchisippi River.

Pierre
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