[PW] Re: Inuit for raccoon

[Christine LeMieux]

I think you are facing two difficulties here. First, there are a large
number of Native Alaskan languages, none of which appears to be actually
called Inuit(though I could be miataken). See Alaskool.org
(http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm)
for more info. Second, the raccoon's range does not extend that far
north, according to a couple of books on North American mammals I
checked, so the native languages may not include a word for "raccoon".
It certainly did not appear in either of the online dictionaries I
checked through the Alaskool web site. Your patron may need to pick a
different language :-(

Chris LeMieux
Youth Services Librarian
East Side, Hillyard, Indian Trail Branches
Spokane Public Library

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Subject: [PW] Inuit for raccoon

A patron just got an Alaska Malamute puppy with raccoon eyes and would
like
to call her the Inuit or Aleut or a related tribe's name for raccoon. I
did
some Google searches on Inuit, Aleut, and Eskimo +dictionary, but didn't
find the word.

Thank-you for any leads.

Jeffrey Pike
Technology Services Librarian
Groton Public Library
Groton, MA 01450
jpike at gpl.org

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