[Algonquiana] [External] a question I got

[Richard RHODES]

Monica,
     There is a Proto-Algonquian word for ‘go inland; go into the woods’ *kwexpii:wa. It has reflexes across the family PC kospīw, SWO gopii, Men kohpeew, Munsee kóhpii (adv) ‘in the forest’. 
      It is reasonable to assume the French was an attempt to claque a single word meaning ’go into the forest’.

Rich

Richard A. Rhodes
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

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> On Sep 9, 2023, at 11:45, McCafferty, Michael L. <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Monica,
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> I will ask a colleague in Quebec who may know the answer to your correspondent's question.
> 
> Michael
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> Hi-
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> I got an email from a random person who is translating a book from Spanish into English. It took a while to figure out what she was asking, but I think what she's saying is that the author uses a word in Spanish, "bosquizarse," which would mean something like 'to forest (oneself)', i.e. go to the forest. She (the author) then claims it comes from "Algonquin," although I doubt she meant the language itself; more likely an Algonquian language. (?)
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> The translator found a reference to "On the Animal Trail" by Baptiste Morizot that says "They would say: ‘Tomorrow I’m heading off, I’m going to enforest myself (‘je vais m’enforester’)."
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> I think what she (the translator) is getting at is whether it could be a calque from some Algonquian language. I have never heard of anything like this, but I told her I'd ask around.
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> Totally off the wall or is there anything to it?
> 
> Monica
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