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Is your title saying the site is full of s**t? 
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nah, I just figgered to get all y'all digging... ;)
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lagniappe - Quechua yapay 'add, addition'
This is a very handy word I recognized from your source, Maverick. Never knew where it came from before.* "high muckamuck" [Chinook hiu muckamuck] is another great one!
from Dr. Bill [wwh]:
Maverick's long list of Indian words is tantalizing in that I once knew many of them. For instance, I knew axolotl was an amphibian that we dissected in Comparative Anatomy. Think it was called 'mudpuppy'. I'll bet few members know where those native American groups [in Maverick's source] were located.
* M-W traces the source to french/spanish but perhaps "la napa" derives from "Quechua yapay", a custom practised by aboriginal peoples in regions of the Americas conquered by the Spanish.
Main Entry: [bla·gniappe
Pronunciation: 'lan-"yap, lan-'
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure
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For most of them I at least have a guess:
Costanoan--Costa Rica?
Nahuatl--Mexico?
Guarani--South America?
Quechua--Mexico or Central America?
Eskimo--yep
Carib--too easy, unless I have been deceived
Choctaw--um...midwest U.S.?
Arawak--no idea unless it's Alaska
Tupi--no idea
Algonquian--northeast U.S. and into Canada, although this actually came to be the
"umbrella name" under which several tribes united
Taino--no idea
Quechua--no idea but puts me in mind of Quebec
Aztec--Mexico
Aymara--no idea
Catawba--no idea
Maya--South America--Peru?
Salish--no idea
Araucanian--no idea
Miskito--no idea (I'm beginning to think I'm going to have
to retract my opening statement.)
Ojibwa--midwest/western U.S. ...I think
Chinook--way northern North America...west
Navajo--Mew Mexico area
Dakota--too easy
Hopi--next to the Navajos
Natick--no idea
Powhatan--augh, I should know this! Eastern U.S. ...?
Aleut--way northern North America
Cree--midwest U.S.
Nootka--no idea but sounds way northern
Narraganset--too easy
Pima--SW U.S.
Halkomelem--no idea
Munsee--never heard of this one or the one above
Massachuset--too easy
Muskogean--sort of northern-eastern midwest U.S.
Galibi--never heard of them, either
Micmac--Michigan?
Shawnee--northwestern midwest--came to be pretty fierce
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At least was interesting (as opposed to the above):Could uh-uh and uh-unh come from Cherokee? They're Americanisms, and the former at least recalls the Cherokee negative, a nasalized high vowel. On the other hand, some have claimed an African origin for these expressions. And on the third hand-- you need a lot of hands in philology-- nasals with negatives and central vowels are suspiciously common across the world (like "mama" or "papa"), and are thus hard to attribute to borrowing.
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another wide page, plutarch, this time from the M-W paste. did you use the preformatted markup, or did this font change come along with the cut-n-paste?
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Quechua--Mexico or Central America?
Quechua--no idea but puts me in mind of Quebec
Jackie, the Hogwash® thread is up there ^ in W&F [duck]
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did this font change come along with the cut-n-paste?
It came along with the cut-n-paste. Now there is no link at all.
Didn't know there is a "preformatted markup" [whatever that is]. I have tried Maverick's suggestion of splitting the url on another line, but that seems to break the link most of the time.
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>Didn't know there is a "preformatted markup" that's using the "pre" markup so that you can do stuff like this.
for
some
reason
it
changes fonts well
^
as the better solution to the long-link problem seems to be to
use snipurl.com or tinyurl.com. they're really very easy to use.
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