rokeag
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an Algonquian language, probably Quiripi *rōhkhīk; see yokeag, nocake for more.[1]
Noun[edit]
rokeag (uncountable)
- Synonym of nocake
References[edit]
- ^ Frederick Webb Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1912), page 394: Rokeag. An Indian food preparation made of finely powdered parched corn: spelled also roucheag and rokee. The word is from Quiripi / Quinnipiac) rok'hig, abbreviated from roköhigan, and, like its Massachuset and Pequot-Mohegan cognates, nokehik and yokeag, means '(what is) softened.' (W. R. G.)