Pastonki
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
- the United States of America, the nation established by European settlers in America
Related terms
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