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ursena n IDENTITY OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS 229 Osprey. - See Vaultour. Ours. - French word for the Bear, generically, transferred naturally to the American species, as Ours or Hours. Mentioned by all writers from Cartier, in 1534, onward. There is a picture, but without name, on Champlain's map of...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/67268 2023-12-31T10:19:32+01:00 ursena 1978/02/23 image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67268 eng eng U Trans iii (II), 1909 Roy Soc Can 229 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13111 U_13111_ursena n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67268 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1978 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:25Z ursena n IDENTITY OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS 229 Osprey. - See Vaultour. Ours. - French word for the Bear, generically, transferred naturally to the American species, as Ours or Hours. Mentioned by all writers from Cartier, in 1534, onward. There is a picture, but without name, on Champlain's map of 1612. Ours-marins. - Mentioned in a list by Champlain in 1603, and supposed by Otis to refer to a Seal. But in his narrative of 1608 Champlain repeats this list and writes Ours, Loups marins, showing that ours-marins is simply a misprint due to accidental dropping of a word. Oursin, or Ourcin. - French name for the European Sea-urchin, extended to the common American species. Used by Champlain in 1604, (later as hoursains) then by Lescarbot in connections leaving no question as to its identity. Lescarbot also calls it Chatagne de Mer, meaning Sea- Chestnut, which is another French name for the Sea-urchin, but which Thwaites' Jesuit Relations (I, 69) wrongly and strangely (for it occurs in a list of Shell-fish) translates Porpoises. = oursin DNE-cit FEB. 23 1978 = oursin Used I Used I Used I see U_13112 for reverse Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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ursena n IDENTITY OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS 229 Osprey. - See Vaultour. Ours. - French word for the Bear, generically, transferred naturally to the American species, as Ours or Hours. Mentioned by all writers from Cartier, in 1534, onward. There is a picture, but without name, on Champlain's map of 1612. Ours-marins. - Mentioned in a list by Champlain in 1603, and supposed by Otis to refer to a Seal. But in his narrative of 1608 Champlain repeats this list and writes Ours, Loups marins, showing that ours-marins is simply a misprint due to accidental dropping of a word. Oursin, or Ourcin. - French name for the European Sea-urchin, extended to the common American species. Used by Champlain in 1604, (later as hoursains) then by Lescarbot in connections leaving no question as to its identity. Lescarbot also calls it Chatagne de Mer, meaning Sea- Chestnut, which is another French name for the Sea-urchin, but which Thwaites' Jesuit Relations (I, 69) wrongly and strangely (for it occurs in a list of Shell-fish) translates Porpoises. = oursin DNE-cit FEB. 23 1978 = oursin Used I Used I Used I see U_13112 for reverse |
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U Trans iii (II), 1909 Roy Soc Can 229 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13111 U_13111_ursena n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67268 |
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