Indigenous Words in English
Across
- 4. from 'āhuacatl', a delicious food that grows on trees and has an edible skin, creamy green flesh, and a big pit in the middle
- 5. leather shoe or 'maxkeseni'
- 7. 'barbakoa' specially cooked meat, usually in sauce (Arawakan)
- 9. 'pawewa': now a ceremonial gathering, earlier it meant "to have a dream or vision", (Algonquin)
- 11. once a tool for dragging belongings through snow and mud, now a tool for cruising down sledding hills (Algonquin)
- 15. 'chīlli' a special, spicy fruit (Nahuatl)
- 16. 'moos' large animal of North American forests (Algonquin)
- 17. one of the three sisters that grows along the ground, she is plump and has a skin with edible flesh inside (Algonquin)
- 18. another, smellier forest-dwelling animal (Algonquin)
- 19. once pronounced doodem, meaning a family group now referring to polls and animal symbols (Algonquin)
- 20. "nut" or 'pekani'(Algonquin)
- 21. 'xahcalli'grass hut (Nahuatl)
- 22. 'hurakán' intense storm along ocean coasts (Taino)
- 24. squirrel indigenous to America (Algonquin)
Down
- 1. forest-dwelling, masked animal (Algonquin)
- 2. from 'cacahuatl' (Nahuatl)
- 3. 'ahuacatl'+'mole' avocado sauce (Nahuatl)
- 6. an animal, "snow shoveler" much like a moose (Algonquin)
- 8. 'hamaca' a net that hangs in trees for resting in
- 10. "white dog-like animal" 'apassem'(Algonquin)
- 11. 'thípi' Lakota for "house"
- 12. now a state, "great sea" or 'mishigami'(Algonquin)
- 13. "great river" or 'misizibii' (Algonquin)
- 14. 'ch'arki' dried meat (Quechua)
- 19. from *temah-, "to cut" + *-a·kan, "instrument for" (Algonquin)
- 20. 'batata' or 'papa' a starchy food that grows underground (Haitian carib or Taino)
- 23. "snowshoe-netter" referring to people from snowy places who walk on snow shoes (Algonquin)