“Kankakee”: An Old Etymological Puzzle
Abstract A clean linguistic analysis of a place name as important in history and geography as “Kankakee” is presented here. The original place name, from the Miami-Illinois language, while faithfully recorded in the early 1680s by the explorer René de La Salle, was distorted by the French in the yea...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2014-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2012 |