iroquese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] Frontenac, now Kingston, was situated on Lake Ontario, which, as Hennepin tells us, was called by the Iroquese, Kanandario, which means “very pretty lake,” and where the deep clear waters of that most safely navigable of all the great lakes of this continent, the source of North America’s chiefest natural wealth, are gathered into a very narrow outlet; […]"
- "The Iroquese and the Delaware never marry into their own stock."
- "On my journey through the country of the Iroquese I saw the women employed in manufacturing this hemp."
- "“There was an Iroquese captain,” says Hennepin “who, one day wanting his bowl, entered into the town of Montreal, in Canada, crying ‘Hai! hai!’ which, in their language, is the sign of peace; he was received with many caresses of kindness.”"
- "[…] the Iroquese Country."
- "In North America the Narragansett Indian Church set up in 1740, Jaqui Syncretic Churches existing since 1760 and the Handsome Lake cult among the Iroquese people still function."
Etymology
From French Iroquois.
Origin
- Source language: French