Louisiana place names of Indian origin
Subtitle: a collection of words
By: William A. Read ; edited and with an Introduction by George M. Riser.
Publisher: Fire Ant Books/University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780817355050; 9780817380724
Subjects: Names, Indian -- Louisiana; Names, Geographical -- Louisiana
Description: "William A. Read (1869-1962) was an internationally educated and renowned linguist whose career included 38 years as a professor of English at Louisiana State University. His writings spanned five decades and have been instrumental across a wide range of academic disciplines. Most importantly, Read devoted a good portion of his research to the meaning of place names in the southeastern United States - especially as they related to Indian word adoption by Europeans." "This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Collection of 3 previously published articles by the author.

Includes bibliographical references.