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Where?
How far?
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Kennebec, MA, and Kennewick, WA, have the same first syllable. "Kenne" means "wide." "Bec" means "brook." "Wick," means "valley."
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How far east and west
did the hunters go?
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(Google earth can tell you.)
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Winnipeg Lake, Manitoba, and Winnimucca, NM, have the same first syllable. "Winni" means "foul smell." "Peg" means "bay." "Mucca" means "lots of muck."
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How far north and south
did the hunters go?
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The modern paraphrase for a sleeping place for hunters is "camp." The Norse Christian Lenape used a different idiom to mean "camp."
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What was the Lenape idiom?
(hint: Look at the decipherment.)
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