Terms for "white man"

[Alan Hartley]

> You also see things on the order of Cristeneaux wandering toward
> Christianeaux.  I'm not sure what the origin of the term is.

There are dozens of variants: [krVst-] (1640-), [kVlist-] (1658-),
[kVnist-] (1672-)

Cree is probably primarily < Canadian Fr. Cris < Kiristinous,
Christinaux, but perhaps also in part directly < Eng. Cristeens,
Christianaux. Both the Fr. and the Eng. are < Ojibway (17c., Algonquin
dialect) kiris^tino; see *KENISTENO. [based on Hdbk. N. Amer. Indians
VI. (1981) 268/2 and on email from Dave Pentland 1999]

Alan