Pastonki

Abenaki

Etymology

From pastoni (“American, European settler”) (from the English name of the city of Boston) + ki (“land”).

Proper noun

Pastonki

1. the United States of America, the nation established by European settlers in America

Related terms

• pastoni

References

• Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 53
• John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, pages 17–32