waumpmunch
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Narragansett
[edit]Noun
[edit]waumpmunch inan pl
- Alternative form of wómpimineash (“chestnuts”)
- 1769, Ezra Stiles, Notes on Narragansett Indian Vocabulary[1], Yale University Beinecke Library, Local record 1769.09.06.00, OID 11413743, pages 2 (24):
- Chestnut Waumpmunch
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Cowan, the form is actually plural, although glossed as singular by Stiles.
Further reading
[edit]- William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 10
- James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “chestnut”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 233