{"id":1581,"date":"2009-05-07T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2009-05-07T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T20:16:00","slug":"paakwin8gwezian-some-abenaki-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/05\/07\/paakwin8gwezian-some-abenaki-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Paakwin8gwezian!: Some Abenaki phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m poking around on www.cowasuck.org, reading past issues of the Aln8bak News, the band’s quarterly (?) newsletter. Each issue contains a column called "Say That in Abenaki." Here’s a few things that I’m picking up from the January 2008 issue<\/a> about greetings and good wishes:

Haaw <\/strong>(haa-oh): A general greeting, equivalent to "hello."<\/p>\n

Kwai <\/strong>(k-why-ee): A more informal greeting or recognition of people nearby, equivalent to "hi" or maybe even "hey there."<\/p>\n

Pedgi mina<\/strong> (pit-gee mee-nuh): Equivalent to "return again," maybe even "goodbye."<\/p>\n

And my favorite…<\/p>\n

Paakwin8gwezian <\/strong>(paa-kwe-n8-gwe-zee-ann): Equivalent to "long time no see," a greeting specifically for people who haven’t been seen in a while.<\/p>\n

The 8 is a nasal long o ["oh"] sound. <\/p>\n

"Paakwin8gwezian" is what Absinthe says to Will after 100 years of separation. \ud83d\ude00 All things considered, such a greeting would probably come a bit more readily to her than "long time no see."<\/p>\n

Over in the word search<\/a> from the same issue, I find the following:<\/p>\n

Yahi<\/strong> [yah hee]: An exclamation of joy, equivalent to "yahoo," "yay," "hooray," "yippee," etc.<\/p>\n

There is a pronunciation guide<\/a> in the October 2007 Aln8bak News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m poking around on www.cowasuck.org, reading past issues of the Aln8bak News, the band’s quarterly (?) newsletter. Each issue contains a column called "Say That in Abenaki." Here’s a few things that I’m picking up from the January 2008 issue about greetings and good wishes:Haaw (haa-oh): A general greeting, equivalent to "hello." Kwai (k-why-ee): A… Continue reading Paakwin8gwezian!: Some Abenaki phrases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}