What is the native American language of raccoon?

Answer 1

• Names describing agile forepaws

• Abnaki: asban, one who lifts up things
• Algonkin: ah-rah-koon-em, they rub, scrub, scratch
• Atakapa: welkol, (wilkol, wulkol, wutko), they rub and scratch
• Aztec: mapachitl, they take everything in their hands
• Biloxi-Sioux: atuki, they touch things
• Chinook: q'oala's, they scratch
• Chippewa: aasebun, aissibun, they pick up things
• Choctaw: shauii, graspers
• Cree: essebanes, they pick up things
• Creek: wutki, they rub and scratch
• Delaware: eespan, one who picks up things; wtakalinch, one very clever with its fingers
• Lenape: eespan, hespan, they handle things; nachenum, they use hands as a tool
• Menomini: aispan, they handle things
• Mohican: sha-we, grasper
• Natick: asban, they pick up things
• Ofo-Sioux: at-cha, one who touches things
• Ojibway: aispun, essepan, they pick up things
• Seminole: wood-ko, one who rubs
• Shawnee: shapata, ethepata, grasper
• Takelma: swini, picks up things with hands
• Tschimshean: que-o-koo, washes with hands
• Yakima: k'alas they scratch

• Names describing face

• Dakota-Sioux: weekah tegalega, magic one with painted face
• Hopi: shiuaa, painted one
• Huron-Iroquois: attigbro, blackened (face); gahado-goka-gogosa, masked demon spirit
• Mandan: nashi, blackened face and feet
• Mexico (tribe not given): macheelee, white bands on face
• Nicaragua (tribe not given): macheelee, white bands on face
• Wyot: cbel'igacocib, one with marked face

• Names implying magic (both sexes)

• Cheyenne: macho-on, one who makes magic
• Dakota Sioux: wee-kah, (wee-chah, wee-kahsah, wici, wicha) one with magic; wee-kah tegalega, magic one with painted face (or wici)
• Omaha, Osage, Otoe: mee-kah, (mee-chah, mee-kahsa) same meaning as wee-chah and variants one with magic
• Sioux: macca-n-e, one who makes real magic
• Yankton Sioux: wayatcha, (same root word as wee-kah)

• Names for females with magic

• Mexico (used by Aztecs, but probably borrowed from another trib): see-o-ahtlah-ma-kas-kay (cioatlamacasque), she who talks with spirits; ee-yah-mah-tohn, she (little old one) who knows things
• Yakima: tsa-ga-gla-tal, she who watches (legendary); witch, spirit

• Names describing big tail (long tail, ringed tail)

• Chinook: siah-opoots-itswoot, long-tailed bearlike one
• Huron: ee-ree-ah-gee, those of big-tailed (long-tailed) kind
• Iroquois: gah-gwah-gee, cah-hee-ah-gway, big (long) tailed ones
• Sioux: shinte-gleska, ring-tailed ones
• Seneca: kagh-quau-ga, big (long) tailed
• Wyandot: ee-ree, big-tailed, long-tailed ones

• Names comparing to dog

• Arawak: ah-ohn, dog, of dog kind
• Guyana: mayuato, doglike leaper
• Huron-Iroquois: agaua, doglike one
• Klamath: wacgina, tamed like dog
• Narragansett: ausup, night doglike one
• Taino: ah-ohn, ah-oon, of the dog kind
• Tupi: agwara, doglike leaper

• Names indicating eaters of crabs, crayfish

• Choctaw: shauii, graspers (of crayfish)
• Guyana: mauyato, doglike leaper on crabs and crayfish
• Kiowa: seip-kuat, pulls out crayfish with hands (seip-mantei, crayfish)
• Tupi: aguara-po-pay, doglike leaper on crabs, crayfish (used by other tribes in the Tupi trade-jargon area)

• Names for pelt only or sewn pelt garment

• Algonkin: match-koh (for pelt or pelt sewn into poncho-type coat)
• Algonkin-Roanoke: macquoc
• Narragansett: mohewonck, pelt sewn into poncho-type coat (wonck=coat)
• Ojibway: matchigode, raccoon fur garment for women
• Wocoon: auher
• Alaska/Canada: tsick-re-buck, Indian version of schupp/raccoon?
• Iroquois: tschoe-ra-gak, Indian version of schupp, used by traders asking first for schupp and then raccoon skins--neither word known to Indians?

• Names without literal meanings

• Blackfeet: kaka-nostake
• Brazil (tribe not given): guassini, guachini
• Caddo: o'at
• Canada (tribe not given): ottaguin, ochateguin
• Iroquois: tcokda
• Mikwok: patkas
• Nez Perce: kai-kai-yuts
• Nootka: klapissime
• Pima: va-owok
• Suislaw: pilquits
• Taos: pah-suh-de-na, water?
• Tillamook: dEwu'si, living raccoons; wEluhs,legendary raccoon
• Tuscorora: roosotto
• Tutelo: kanulo-nixa-niso

• Non-Indian names

• American-English: coon, rattoon
• Canadian French: chat, chat sauvage, cat, European wildcat
• Danish: skjob, fisher, fur trade name
• Dutch: schob, fisher, fur trade name
• French: raton, raton laveur, little rat, little washer rat
• Finland: siupp, fisher, fur trade name
• German: schupp, fisher, fur trade name; washbär,washer bear, from Linnaeus Ursus lotor
• Latin: Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, 1747: Ursus cauda elongata; 1748: Ursus cauda annulata, fascia per oculos transversali; 1758: Ursus lotor
• Latin: Hernández, Francisco, Historiae Animalium...Novai Hispaniae, 1651: cane melitensi,badgerlike dog
• Lithuanian: sunluskis, dog-bear
• Polish: szop, fisher, fur trade name
• Russian: jenot, fisher, fur trade name
• Spanish: mapache, from Aztec, mapachitli, uses hands; oso lavador, washer bear (from Linnaeus); perro mastin, mudo, tejón, masked, barkless, badgerlike dog, popular usage
• Swedish: sjupp fisher, fur trade name; tváttbjörn, from Linnaeus, washer bear