Conestoga
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See also: conestoga
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Susquehannock kanahstó:ke (the name of a settlement, now Conestoga, Pennsylvania). According to Mithun, British colonists based the name on the Mohawk word tekanastoge (“place of the upright pole”).[1] It may also be the anglicized form of Gandastogue, which may have been close to what the Susquehannock called themselves.[2]
Noun[edit]
Conestoga (plural Conestogas or Conestoga)
- (now historical) A member of a North Iroquoian people (also known as Susquehannock) formerly living in Pennsylvania and Maryland. [from 17th c.]
- (now historical) A type of draft horse developed in Pennsylvania. [from 19th c.]
- (now historical) A Conestoga wagon. [from 20th c.]
- 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 32:
- Conestoga axles creaked under their loads as the barrels of molasses and bacon and meal rattled in the wagon beds.
References[edit]
- ^ Mithun, Marianne (1981). "Stalking the Susquehannocks". International Journal of American Linguistics. 47: 1–2.
- ^ Kent, Barry C. (2020). "Late Woodland/Early Historic Native Americans in the Susquehanna Drainage Basin:The Susquehannocks". In Carr, Kurt William; Bergmann, Christopher A.; et al. (eds.). The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.