ursena

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67268

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