gana꞉dá꞉yęʼ

Onondaga

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat-. Related to Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”), which is the origin of English Canada.

Noun

gana꞉dá꞉yęʼ

  1. village, town, settlement

References

  • Charles Julian (2010), A history of the Iroquoian Languages‎[1], University of Manitoba, page 514
  • Hanni Woodbury (2018), A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page 45
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