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- Title
Malsan naka muhsilepehk/Le marchand et monsier l'évêque.
- Authors
Leavitt, Robert M.
- Abstract
French loan-words in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy date to the early colonial period, when the first settlers and missionaries arrived in New France. The borrowed words belong to a wide range of daily activities, but are conspicuous today principally in their association with the Church and in Maliseet personal names. While the Maliseet adopted French, and later English, words for many of the new things the Europeans brought, they also made imaginative use of their own language. The examples presented here reveal this mixture of borrowing and reinventing.
- Subjects
CANADA; PASSAMAQUODDY language; LOANWORDS; MALECITE (North American people); NATIVE American languages; CANADIAN history to 1763; DIALECTS; CANADIAN French; NEW France
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 3, p25
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/045800ar