assapan
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1706.[1][2][3]
Noun
[edit]assapan (plural assapans)
- (Southern US, now uncommon) A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.
- Synonym: assapanick
- 1875, John George Wood, Trespassers: showing how the inhabitants of earth, air, and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own, page 299:
- Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […] .
- 1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312:
- A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements, […]
- 1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66:
- Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.
References
[edit]- ^ Chamberlain, Alexander F. (1902 October–December) “Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact of the White Man and The Indian”, in The Journal of American Folk-Lore[1], volume XV, number LIX, American Folk-Lore Society, , page 241
- ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Assapan”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 499, column 2.
- ^ Charles L. Cutler (2000) O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English[2], page 158
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]assapan (dated)
- Synonym of amerikanliito-orava (“Glaucomys volans”)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of assapan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | assapan | assapanit | |
genitive | assapanin | assapanien | |
partitive | assapania | assapaneja | |
illative | assapaniin | assapaneihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | assapan | assapanit | |
accusative | nom. | assapan | assapanit |
gen. | assapanin | ||
genitive | assapanin | assapanien | |
partitive | assapania | assapaneja | |
inessive | assapanissa | assapaneissa | |
elative | assapanista | assapaneista | |
illative | assapaniin | assapaneihin | |
adessive | assapanilla | assapaneilla | |
ablative | assapanilta | assapaneilta | |
allative | assapanille | assapaneille | |
essive | assapanina | assapaneina | |
translative | assapaniksi | assapaneiksi | |
abessive | assapanitta | assapaneitta | |
instructive | — | assapanein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- English terms borrowed from Eastern Algonquian languages
- English terms derived from Eastern Algonquian languages
- English terms borrowed from Powhatan
- English terms derived from Powhatan
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- Southern US English
- English terms with uncommon senses
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- English 3-syllable words
- en:Squirrels
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑsːɑpɑn
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑsːɑpɑn/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish dated terms
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Squirrels