Padouca

[Michael McCafferty]

I might have missed something in this Padouca discussion. What language does
the word come from; what's the etymology?

Michael

Quoting Rory M Larson <rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu>:

  I was
> thinking that the Algonquianists might know of earier written
> records of the name in Algonquian contexts, or that they might be
> able to tell by internal evidence among these groups.

Like I said earlier today, it's not in the early Illinois material, as far I
as know.