Atchafalaya
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Choctaw hvcha falaya (“long river”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /əˌt͡ʃæfəˈlaɪə/
Proper noun
[edit]Atchafalaya
- A river in Louisiana, major distributary of the Mississippi River.
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
- “If you came by the Atchafalaya,
How have you nowhere encountered my Gabriel's boat on the bayous?”