(Muskogean, meaning old fields or old town); Honolulu, Hawaii (meaning sheltered harbor); Topeka, Kans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

It's very hard to find convincing cognates between Natchez and Muskogean.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Is this the same paper where he discusses the problems of branches of Muskogean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Natchez MIGHT be very distantly related to Muskogean, but it's not 'a Muskogean language'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

It's typologically rather similar to Muskogean, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

The presence of a reconstructible word for corn in Proto-Muskogean doesn't surprise me much.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

I studied a bit via the internet Creek archives site to get the feel for a Muskogean language.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PATRIN.] Reference

Also,there were outlying languages like Natchez which are classified as tentatively within Muskogean.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Most of the groups of the confederacy shared the same language Muskogean, types of ceremonies, and village layout.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Long ago Mary Haas connected Algonquian to Muskogean in a grouping she called 'Macro-Algonquian' funnily, it wasn't called 'Macro-Muskogean'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

As for Muskogean, what I meant was that the greatest distance in the family is clearly between Chickasaw/Choctaw on one hand, and Creek/Seminole on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

And my sources equating Natchez with Muskogean are out of date... that's the problem of living 1000 kilometers from the nearest decent English language library.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

I thought there were basically TWO theorized groupings of Muskogean -- one that has Chickasaw/Choctaw as the first branching, as opposed to the other that has Creek/Seminole as the first branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

George Aaron Broadwell called "Reconstructing Proto-Muskogean Language and Prehistory: Preliminary results" that's chock-full of the kind of detailed lexical comparisons and reconstructions I so enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

This kind of garden-cultivation indeed repeats very closely the foodquest of the Muskogean cultivators in the South-eastern States, who make up the so-called 'civilized tribes' and, almost alone among the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

Marianne Mithun in The Languages of Native North America which is a fun book, Hat, you should consider getting a copy doesn't mention Hokan-Siouan at all, let alone any relationship between it and Muskogean.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

I think it's interesting how the four or seven languages of Muskogean are classified in more ways ways by different linguists than you might think possible for such a relatively small and transparently related family.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hokan, Macro-Siouan (including Caddoan and Iroquoian) and Gulf (which hypothetically includes Muskogean together with various other Southeastern languages) are listed as "stocks", in the sense of hypothetical related groups above the level of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

The ease with which the Muskogean potato and tomato have been acclimatized, and their respective prevalence now in the Atlantic and Mediterranean sections, illustrate exactly the place which primitive hoe-culture held in the economy of the Old-World region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

Of course the development of the meaning in English doesn't have anything to do with the development of the word for Maize in Muskogean, but using ambiguous language well, yes, it's not, really, because it's clear Broadwell is using American English--still some part of me is aware of the possible confusion to describe ambiguous data is the sort of approach to saying nothing at all that I would laugh at from Flann O'Brien.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

They spoke a language that was a mixture of the original tongue of the Muskogean people, who migrated from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examiner California Headlines] Reference

What they did find are two words in the Choctaw language (both tribes 'languages are in the Muskogean language family), alba.    From Wordnik.com.  [mental_floss Blog] Reference

An important tribe or confederacy of Muskogean stock formerly holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi, with adjoining portions of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The peoples are represented by Alabama (the Muskogean); Arkansas and Kansas (the Kansas, closely related to the Sioux); Iowa (the Ioway); Massachusetts (the Massachusett), andUtah (Ute, broadly meaningpeople of the mountains).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

While trying to figure out if Muskogean (the language family to which Choctaw and Chickasaw, among others, belong) is considered to be part of any larger grouping (apparently some people take it for granted it's part of the "Hokan-Siouxan" group while others treat it as independent, Wikipedia calls Hokan itself "a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California and Mexico" and says "few linguists today expect Hokan as a whole to prove to be valid," and I'm certainly not qualified to even have a thought about the matter), I ran across an interesting paper (pdf file; unfortunately, there does not appear to be an HTML cache) by Prof.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

"to get the feel for a Muskogean language.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PATRIN.] Reference

Mariposan (Yokuts), Moquelumnan (Miwok), Muskogean, Pujunan (Maidu).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference