Todays word "parsimonious" is a really beautiful word for a not so beautiful quality. It made me think of persimmons. When I looked for links there appeared to be none whatsoever but the etymology looked so nice and exotic that I felt like sharing.
persimmon
1610s, from Powhatan (Algonquian) pasimenan "fruit dried artificially," from pasimeneu "he dries fruit," containing proto-Algonquian */-min-/ "fruit, berry."
I suppose that's an American Indian language?
Don't harvest them until after a frost (
>SOUR< !); and then you'll have to hope the deer haven't beaten you to them.
Oh, what a beauty! Haven't seen many deer round here lately.
I suppose that's an American Indian language?Yes, (
link), spoken by a tribe that lived in what is now the state of Virginia. named after a chief.
Mamanatowick, Powhatan. I love these words in this article. Pity it's lost in a way.
A lot of Native names are still around in the U.S., as street names, or towns, or counties--maybe states too: Minnesota? Right here in Louisville there are streets named Iroquois, Hiawatha, Ottawa, Ticonderoga, and Paiute. Kentucky itself is purported to be from a Native (I forgot which tribe) word pronounced something like kan-too-kee, which, iirc, means roughly, "plains". There's a Manteo, North Carolina, and the wonderful city name Manitowoc--sorry, forgot which state--Wisconsin? Plus there are names such as Saskatchewan in Canada.
They sound odd now, but those people were here first.
>those people were here first.
and are getting many last laughs via the Indian casinos.
Native American gaming enterprises
Nebraska is an Omaha word, meaning 'flat water' for the
Platte River, which is very flat. Iowa is named for the Iowa
nation with reservations in Nebraska and Kansas. The Dakotas
are named for those peoples. Not just states and cities
but rivers, creeks, mountains, counties.
It is too bad they cannot all benefit from the gaming
casinos of a few. We destroyed their cultures.
My wife and girls eat them all the time. As I type this, there's a huge bowl of them on the table in the dining room. I, however, have never tasted them. Not ever. I don't know why.
This is your day then. It is said that Japanese persimmon tree survived the atomic bomb at the end of the War. So special health and strenght qualities are claimed for the fruit.
Link Oh, apparently the platanus tree as well.
My wife and girls eat them all the time. As I type this, there's a huge bowl of them on the table in the dining room. I, however, have never tasted them. Not ever. I don't know why.
reading in Flat Mode as I do, this gave me whiplash! and a good chuckle while I determined that it wasn't the Dakotas on your table...
:¬ )
I thought it was the parsimonious that he was talking about eating. I don't even know what a parsimoniou looks like.
An orange caribou, of course. Preferably a stingy one.
No, you were right. My cannibalistic kin delight in fresh Dakota when Aniyunwiya go out of season.
when Aniyunwiya go out of season.
Yes, that's the kind of language!