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<DIV>In a message dated 8/25/2005 4:40:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On Thu,
25 Aug 2005 mmccaffe@indiana.edu wrote:<BR>> Just a couple of things: the
French called the wild turkey "coq d'Inde,"<BR>> "India cock". Make of that
what you will.<BR><BR>I tend to suspect that "turkey" in English "Turkey
bird" derives from<BR>this eastern connection - with one exotic heathen
not too carefully<BR>distinguished from another. The suggestion from
Nick Miller that the<BR>whole scheme derives from using the same terms for pea
fowl, which also do<BR>a spread-tail display, makes sense, and explains the
(East) Indian/Turkish<BR>connection.<BR><BR>A wonderful childhood memory of
mine is being allowed to pick up as many<BR>fallen peacock tailfeathers as I
liked on the grounds of an estate on the<BR>Eastern Shore that kept a
flock. A "distant uncle" - in the words of Hank<BR>Williams - was
caretaker of the place. Alas, peacocks usually don't drop<BR>them until
they've used them a bit and then they walk around on them doing<BR>what birds
do. I think our mother may have edited our collection some<BR>later
without telling us.<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Some of the indigenous names for the ‘turkey’ on the East Coast
were:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Virginia Algonquian (Powhatan) monanaw (and similar spellings) ‘a turkey’
(William Strachey, 1612) -- It is perhaps noteworthy that the English were
already calling the bird 'a turkey' during the early years of the Jamestown
settlement.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Narragansett neyhom (Roger Williams)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Natick nahiam (Wood)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Old Abenaki nahame (Rasles)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Old Delaware tshikenum (Zeisburger)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Catawba watkaN (or witkaN) su:riye ‘lit. wild fowl’</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>(modern Iroquoian forms are from the dictionaries published by University
of Toronto Press, Wally Chafe’s Seneca dictionary, and Gunther Michelson’s
Mohawk dictionary)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Old Tuscarora Coona ‘A Turkey’ (Lawson 1701) (modern Tuscarora keN:neN?
‘turkey’) (cognate with the Cherokee word gvna that Dave cited; also Nottoway
kunum ‘turkey’).</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Cayuga sohoN:t<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘turkey’
(Froman, Keye, Keye & Dyck)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Seneca o?so:oNt<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘turkey’
(Chafe)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Onondnaga honuNdaheNhweNh, nedaheNhwah ‘turkey’ (Woodbury) </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Oneida skawilo:wane? ‘turkey’ (Michelson & Doxtator)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Mohawk skawero:wane? ‘turkey’ (G. Michelson)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Huron ondettontaque ‘coq d’inde’ (Sagard)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Wyandot detoN:ta? ‘turkey’ (Barbeau)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">Blair</SPAN></P></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>