Glottal stop frequency

[Alan H. Hartley]

> I thought there was a legitimate Micmac etymology for it that did mean "he
> eats it raw". But then, I don't know much Micmac.

HNAI V.5 (Ives Goddard): "In spite of the tenacity of the belief, both
among Algonquian speakers and in the anthropological and general
literature..this explanation fits only the cited Ojibwa forms..and
cannot be correct for the presumed Montagnais source of the word Eskimo
itself." [And note that Ojibwa is geographically a very unlikely
source.]

Alan