Iron County register., 1891-04-30
CURiOSiTIES IN NAMES
Haion of Many Common English
Feminine Appeilations

more curious and remarkable than the
1act that many of our common English
appeiiatlons-esp specially names of fe-
maies-are discoverable in the ancient
tities OF the red men And at the same
tIlne 1t Is known also that the occur
renee Is not the result of any effort on
the part of the aborigines Of the country
10 reproduce the English or European
words or to insert them knowingly in
geographical titles.
We ind. for instance, the name Anna
IN the aboriginal titles of many Arneri-
can rivers, as in Fluv-anna and Riy-
anna. in Virginia. The same term in
aspIrate form, as Hannah. is in Susoue-
hannah, of Pennsylvania. and in Ham
nah-hatchle, of Georgia. lHannah-
hatchle means the Hannah river
hatchle being term in many OF the alb
original southern dialects for river.l
ihe term as Anna is found in many In
dian names Of waters-sometimes in
the recommendations. as aw-nee or wau-
nee- as in Lackawannah or Suwanee
Aunee or Auna IS a term found in sew
eral of the old Semitic languages for
stream or fountain. In the Hebrew it
Is abbreviated as on and en- In Arabic
1t Is either auna or ain.
Our names Sarah and Sallie are found
In many Indian names of waters. Sal
laeoi. or Sallaquoy. is in Tennessee and
Georgia Sara is the old native name
OF a bayou in Louisiana Sara is in the
New York name Saranac. or, as prop
eriy written, Saranacca. for our fore
1athers, not content with suppressing
the red man himself. suppressed much
OF his language-especially the final
vowel sounds in the Manassas these
hnais We're supposed to be but super
huous cultural of the savage tongue.
This old Indian name Saranacca is pre-
clsely the same word which the ancients
had for the -Egean sea-Saronica-in
Latin feminine. Sara is also an ancient
old world word for river The
modern Arabic sur. suhr or shur
Is corruption of the true word.
which has gone also into the English
name Surrey. But few. persons are
aware of the fact that Sallie is simply
an oriental pronunciation OF the word
we write Sarah. The Chinese especial
" eiect the sounds of in all words
using the sounds of l. Many people all
over the world find it difficult to enun-
ciate the letter 7. Such people almost
invariably use l in the interchange.
The old natives of the Sandwich islands
are unable to even hear the sound of r
when uttered on other tongues The
languages of both China and the Sand
wich islands have no =. Many of our
old Indian tribes rejected the sound of
T. using | instead The two letters ap-
pear to be used Interchangeable in
many languages. both ancient and
modern And hence our name
Mary Is sometimes expressed natural
" as Mainly. or as we write the word.
Mollie. There are numerous other in
terchanges that are common and uni
verSal in languages. The labials-the
letters sounded in the closing of the
ips-b, m. p. f. v,-are subject to many
curious interchanges, and hence the
corruption OF Polly for Mollie or Mary;
and hence, also, the corruption of Patty
for Matte. or Patsy for Martha.
The name Patsy is in the Indian ap-
pellation Patsaliga- river in Alabama
Matte is in Mattapony of Virginia, and
Mattawamkeag. of Maine. Mollie is in
the word Guata-maula. in Central
America. The nearest approach we
have to Mary is in Maricabo, of South
America, and Mariposa, of California.
The word Mariposa is said to signify
of a beautiful water in the Sierra Ne
vada mountains The term Mare is also
ancient Latin for the sea.
The name Lucy is heard in several
Indian appellations of waters. as in
Lousahatchie. of Tennessee. LOUISA is
word used for river names in many
tongues In Russia il is spelled Looza.
and the Central African explorers write
il Luza or Louza.
Our sweet name Ella is in the pure
Indian word Elliiay-a river OF Georgia.
Sue is in many names. as in Sioux tSool.
Suyvanee and Suisun (SoOsoon. OF Cali
formal.
Callie is in Calaqua, or Chalaqua,
which Is the ancient Cherokee appella-
ton of the Tennessee river-the word
corrupted. also. into kallamuckee.
ChaIauua is the true original of the
word Cherokee itself-the Cherokee
Indians rejecting the sounds of r in
their dialect kalla is in our name kal-
lamazoo.
The name Winnee is in many Indian
appellations-as in Winnebago, Winnie
muclzee and others The term 'muckee.
seen in this last (Nevadal name, and IN
the Tennessee title, Kallamuc&ee. means
in the Indian big water" The Win
nemckee is a beautiful lake lying just
east of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It is famous for its salmon or wine-col-
ored fish. the term ''winnee" signifying
in the old Indian, ''wine-colored. or
tinped with color. Winnee is the alb
original name of river in South Caro-
lima. its waters darkly tinged that 1T
is now commonly called the Black river
Minnie, a popular female name, is
said to be term in the Sioux dialect for
water 1t is in many of the northwest
ern names of waters-as Mlnnehaha,
Minnetonqua. Minnesota. etc
Many other names are reproduced In
the Indian Willacoochee is a river In
Florida Tombeckbee is the Indian OF
a river in Alabama, now commonly
called Tom bigbee. Toma-lis-oo was one
of the aboriginal names of the Mlssls-
sippi river, and Tomba is river IN
China. \ hundred other illustrations
would not exhaust the subject VI. '.
Moore in Detroit Free Press
\ Sensitive Tenant
Indignant Landlord-Ify you don't pay
ND. ont you GO Ill have you fired
right out into the street, bag and bag
gage You haven't paid cent in six
months.
Delinquent Tenant-Don't do that