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Author Read, William A. (William Alexander), 1869-1962.

Title Indian place names in Alabama / by William A. Read
Edition Rev. ed. with a foreword, appendix, and index / by James B. McMillan
Published University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1984

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 107 pages)
Series Library Alabama Classics
Library Alabama Classics
Contents Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Map of Alabama Counties and Principal Rivers -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Source of Names -- 2. Character of Names -- 3. Number and Distribution of Names -- 4. Pseudo-Indian Names -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- International Phonetic Alphabet -- List of Names -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- 1. Names -- 2. Pronunciation -- 3. Appendix Bibliography -- Index
Summary What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama
Notes "Originally published in 1937 as no. 29 of Louisiana State University studies"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Names, Indian -- Alabama
Names, Geographical -- Alabama
TRAVEL.
Names, Geographical
Names, Indian
Geografische namen.
Indianen.
Alabama
Form Electronic book
Author McMillan, James B., 1907-
LC no. 84002593
ISBN 0585295514
9780585295510
9780817384722
0817384723