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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Wate
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
bayou
English bayou, recorded by 1763, came from Louisiana French bayouque. An early Choctaw *bayok is a plausible proposed source, but the historical form and its alleged contraction to modern bók are not securely attested.
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kayak
An English borrowing recorded in 1757 from Inuit qayaq, the name of the Indigenous Arctic watercraft; the reviewed English source does not identify one specific Inuit language variety.
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mussel
A bivalve mollusk whose English history runs through Middle English muscle and Old English muscelle into the same Latin mouse family as muscle.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Choctaw / Muskogean
*bayok
proposed early Choctaw form for a bayou or watercourse
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- proposed early Choctaw
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- gloss
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
bayou
a creek, secondary watercourse, or sluggish body of water
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- 1763–today
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- gloss
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Louisiana French / Indo-European
bayouque
bayou; stagnant or secondary watercourse
- DATE
- Louisiana French; recorded 1723
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- gloss
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- 1
Present-Day English / Indo-European
mussel
a marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk
- DATE
- before the 12th century–today
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- gloss
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- 1
Inuit source (variety unspecified) / Eskimo-Aleut
qayaq
kayak; traditional narrow skin-covered watercraft
- DATE
- Inuit source form; variety unspecified
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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English securely borrowed Louisiana French bayouque. Early Choctaw *bayok is plausible, while the oft-repeated bayuk form and its contraction to modern bók remain insecure.
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