namees

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English

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Noun

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namees

  1. plural of namee

Anagrams

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Munsee

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Etymology

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From Proto-Algonquian *name·ʔsa (fish).[1] Cognate with Unami namès (fish), Mahican namāāθ (fish), Abenaki namas (fish), Penobscot nàmehs (fish).

Noun

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namées (namé·sanim (plural naméesak, possessive naméesum, locative naméesung, diminutive naméeshush, obviative naméesal)[2][1]

  1. fish

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Goddard, Ives (1982) “The Historical Phonology of Munsee”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 48, number 1, Chicago: The University of Chicago, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 26
  2. ^ O'Meara, John (2014) “namees”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, →ISBN