Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A family of Native American languages of the southeast United States that includes Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Alabama.
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- noun
Muskogee - proper noun
Muskogee
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
- noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
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Examples
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(Muskogean, meaning old fields or old town); Honolulu, Hawaii (meaning sheltered harbor); Topeka, Kans.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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(Muskogean, meaning old fields or old town); Honolulu, Hawaii (meaning sheltered harbor); Topeka, Kans.
Names 2009
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Most of the nations you will encounter in Fire the Sky spoke a Muskogean tongue ancestral to the Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw languages.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Hence the Muskogean term for a ruler might be “mico,” “mikko,” or the western “minko.”
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Most of the nations you will encounter in Fire the Sky spoke a Muskogean tongue ancestral to the Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw languages.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Hence the Muskogean term for a ruler might be “mico,” “mikko,” or the western “minko.”
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Most of the groups of the confederacy shared the same language Muskogean, types of ceremonies, and village layout.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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They renamed themselves “Seminoles,” the Muskogean version of the Spanish wordcimarrones.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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I think it's interesting how the four or seven languages of Muskogean are classified in more ways ways by different linguists than you might think possible for such a relatively small and transparently related family.
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I thought there were basically TWO theorized groupings of Muskogean -- one that has Chickasaw/Choctaw as the first branching, as opposed to the other that has Creek/Seminole as the first branch.
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