Pastonki
Abenaki
Etymology
From pastoni (“American, European settler”) (from the English name of the city of Boston) + ki (“land”).
Proper noun
Pastonki
- the United States of America, the nation established by European settlers in America
Related terms
- pastoni
References
- Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 53
- John Dyneley Prince (1902), “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, pages 17–32