THE SURPRISING CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MUSKOGEE LANGUAGE AND WHISKEY

The People of one fire ^ | 15 March 2015 | Richard Thornton

[DariusBane]

There are today eight living Muskogean languages, Alabama, Apalachee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Florida Seminole, Koasati, Miccosukee and Oklahoma Muskogee (Mvskoke). In the past, there were at least seven more Muskogean languages, but they are now extinct.

Ironically, of all these surviving Muskogean languages, Muskogee is the most aberrant. In plain English, that means that Muskogee, the language for which the Muskogean Language Family was named, is the least similar to the other languages. The origin of Muskogee’s uniqueness is a Sherlock Holmes mystery that has yet to be solved.

[DariusBane]

Exerpt:Yesterday, while still unsuccessfully looking for another Native American language that used the same word for water as the Muskogee, I stumbled upon shocking information. The Muskogee word for water was the word used for water by a Pre-Celtic, Bronze Age peoples in northwestern Europe.

[TexasGator]

Your take?

[jch10]

Interesting!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Ping!
Did someone say “whisky”.

[fireman15]

The Muskogee word for water was the word used for water by a Pre-Celtic, Bronze Age peoples in northwestern Europe.

Evidence of contact with Norse settlers?

[WKUHilltopper]

Elizabeth Warren wasn’t asked to contribute to this article??

[IYAS9YAS]

Evidence of contact with Norse settlers?

Evidence of them being Norse settlers?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[refreshed]

Extremely interesting. I am very glad I read the article. One thing that struck me was the word for water and how it apparently spanned the Atlantic in two forms, akwe and eau. So interesting. There is so much we don’t know about the settling of the Americas.

[DariusBane]

Not my expertise. I just found the theory interesting.

[refreshed]

I think the world is even older than the Norse. The writer makes the argument that these were they pre-Celtic peoples who possibly made big ships and settle in the Americas.

[DariusBane]

She built the first teepee.

[knarf]

Well, the Philipine word for water is tubig, pronounced too big and the word for breasts is tutoys pronounced two toys, which I find fittingly perfect !

I've been studying and exploring THAT word for over eight pleasant years.

[refreshed]

*word, not *world. Trying to do this on a phone.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[GreyFriar]

An interesting article on the Muskogee Indian tribes. Especially interesting to me is the final section on the linkage of the Muskogean and Celtic words for water. And the account of a 1521 Spanish report of finding “a Caucasian people on the South Atlantic Coast, who lived like American Indians, except that they made cheese from the milk of dairy deer. In addition to maize, they raised a grain that looked like barely. They called their province Duhare, which was the Early Medieval Gaelic word for “Irish”.”

[TexasGator]

check your Etymology

[knarf]

heh heh heh .... why ?