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English
Etymology
From Susquehannock kanahstó:ke (the name of a settlement, now Conestoga, Pennsylvania). According to Mithun, British colonists based the name on the Mohawk word tekanastoge (“place of the upright pole”). It may also be the anglicized form of Gandastogue, which may have been close to what the Susquehannock called themselves.
Noun
Conestoga (plural Conestogas or Conestoga)
- (now historical) A member of a North Iroquoian people (also known as Susquehannock) formerly living in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
- (now historical) A type of draft horse developed in Pennsylvania.
- (now historical) A Conestoga wagon.
2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 32:Conestoga axles creaked under their loads as the barrels of molasses and bacon and meal rattled in the wagon beds.
References
- ^ Mithun, Marianne (1981). "Stalking the Susquehannocks". International Journal of American Linguistics. 47: 1–2.
- ^ Kent, Barry C. (2020). "Late Woodland/Early Historic Native Americans in the Susquehanna Drainage Basin:The Susquehannocks". In Carr, Kurt William; Bergmann, Christopher A.; et al. (eds.). The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.