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The word "turkey" did not originate in any North American native language. The name of the turkey originates in two compounded mistakes. First, the guinea fowl was mistakenly called the "turkey" because it was originally imported to Europe via Turkey and so was thought to originate in Turkey. It actually comes from Africa. Second, when European explorers and settlers first saw wild turkeys in the Americas, they considered them a type of guinea fowl and called them "turkeys." Domesticated turkeys actually originated in what is now Mexico. They may have been first domesticated by some predecessor culture of the Aztecs, or by the Aztecs themselves. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 11y agoJust a few examples out of many hundreds of possible words in North American languages for the turkey are:
Natick..........................................neyhom
Maliseet......................................nehm
Mohegan.....................................naham
Abenaki.......................................nahame or nahama
Delaware.....................................tshikenum
Powhatan...................................monanaw, moninaw or monynawgh
Menominee.................................mese:qnaew
Algonkin/Algonquin......................misise
Ojibwe.........................................mizise
Naskapi.......................................mistipiyaaw
Shawnee.....................................pellewa
Arapaho.......................................beescénee
Cheyenne....................................ma'xêhë'ne
Blackfoot......................................ómahksipi'kss
Cayuga........................................sohǫt
Oneida........................................skawelo·wáneˀ
Mohawk......................................skawerowane
Cherokee....................................gána
Flathead (Kalispel).......................nshelshaltaks
Navajo.........................................tazhii
Apache.........................................tazhi
Jicarilla..........................................kazhi
Arikara (Sanish)............................nu'
Sahaptin (Yakama).......................táki or kwilkwilla
Choctaw.......................................akAk chaha or cholokloha
Aztec (Nahuatl).............................palachtli
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∙ 15y agoThere are MANY Native American languages, not just one. So there are many different words for the turkey in Native American languages.
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