The name of Patchogue is from the
Algonquian language meaning "a turning place" or "where two streams separate." Native-Americans had established trails, trade networks, agricultural areas, and culture.
"Bibliographical notes on Eliot's Indian Bible: And on His Other Translations and Work in the Indian Language of Massachusetts." In A Bibliography of the
Algonquian Language. Ed.
After nearly a decade of excavations, they found not only evidence of contact between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists but artifacts suggesting that Werowocomoco, which translates from Virginia
Algonquian language to "a place of leadership," had been a significant spiritual and political place for four centuries before that.
The bookAEs eight case studies apply linguistics principles to the analysis of historical texts in the
Algonquian language family: Potawatomi, Meskwaki-Sauk, Arapaho, Gros Ventre, Peoria, and Munsee Delaware.
But, these two tribes are not closely related only in so far as both their languages are members of the wide spread
Algonquian language family.
The iconic American river, the Mississippi is both provider and destroyer as this week's floods have proved. 2,348 miles long, it is the second longest river after the Missouri in the United States. Combined, the two rivers' triangular drainage area covers close to 40% of the United States from the Rockies to the Appalachian Mountains and includes all or part of 31 states. Long an important transportation artery of North America, Mississippi literally translates to "father of waters" in the native
Algonquian language.
This justifies its name, Mississippi River, believed to mean "father of all waters" in the
Algonquian language. Because of its importance, it is necessary to monitor its quality periodically.
Fluent in the
Algonquian language Wopanaak, Mayhew spent his life, like three generations of his family before him, preaching to the Wampanoag community on the island.
Of the three characteristic components of a motion event--(FACT OF) MOTION, MANNER (OF MOTION), and PATH (OF MOTION), the latter served as basis for drawing the typological contrast between two major kinds of conflation patterns which are typical of the so-called satellite-framed languages (S-languages, represented by most European languages (including English) other than Romance languages, and also Finno-Ugric, Chinese and Ojibwa (an
Algonquian language)) on the one hand, and of the so-called verb-framed languages (V-languages, represented by Romance, Semitic, Japanese, and Polynesian) on the other hand.
(23.) It is reported that in some languages (e.g., Ojibwa, another
Algonquian language) the direction is present only when at least one of the core arguments is a SAP (Jelinek 1990; Rhodes 1990).
They are called "Massachusett" and "Narragansett." These Indian tongues are a subset of a larger group of about three dozen Indian languages called the
Algonquian language family.