Pastonki

Abenaki

Etymology

From pastoni (“American, European settler”) (from the English name of the city of Boston) + ki (“land”).

Proper noun

Pastonki

  1. the United States of America, the nation established by European settlers in America

References
  • Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
  • John Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4 (1902)
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