Pastonki

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Abenaki

Etymology

From pastoni (“American, European settler”) (from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English name of the city of Boston) + ki (“land”).

Proper noun

Pastonki

  1. the United States of America, the nation established by European settlers in America

References

  • Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
  • John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, pages 17–32
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