ᎠᎹᏰᏟ

Cherokee

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English America, from ᎠᎹ (ama, “water”) +‎ ᎠᏰᏟ (ayetli, “center”), literally “center [for] water”.[1]

Proper noun

ᎠᎹᏰᏟ • (amayetli)

  1. America, United States of America (a country in North America; in full, United States of America)

References

  1. ^ Brad Montgomery-Anderson (2008), A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee, PhD thesis, University of Kansas, page 473
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