Seneca (/ˈsɛnəkə/; in Seneca, Onöndowaʼga꞉ʼ Gawë꞉noʼ, or Onötowáʼka꞉) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Hodinöhsö꞉niʼ...
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The Seneca (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; Seneca: Onöndowa'ga:' (O-non-dowa-gah), lit. 'Great Hill People') are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who...
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The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe based in western New York. They are one of three federally recognized Seneca entities...
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dramatist Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes, native to the area south of Lake Ontario (present day New York state) Seneca language, the language of...
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Their people speak the Seneca language, an Iroquoian language. The Tonawanda Seneca Nation is one of two federally recognized Seneca tribes in Western New...
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Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, branded as Seneca Polytechnic since 2023, is a multi-campus public college in the Greater Toronto Area and...
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome...
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Mingo (redirect from Ohio Seneca)
Algonquian name for Iroquoian-language groups in general. The Mingo have also been called "Ohio Iroquois" and "Ohio Seneca". Most were forced to move from...
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(Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier...
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Ø (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
used in Latin transliteration of the Seneca language as the equivalent of the ampersand; it abbreviates the Seneca word koh. Ø (or more properly, the similar...
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is a Roman tragedy written by philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca before 54 A.D. Its 1,280 lines of verse tell the story of Phaedra, wife...
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with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children...
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Hercules) is a fabula crepidata of c. 1344 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, but the reputed son of Amphitryon...
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Seneca mythology refers to the mythology of the Onödowáʼga: (Seneca people), one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) from the...
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Iroquois (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
two phonetically similar but etymologically distinct words in the Seneca language: Hodínöhšö:ni:h, meaning "those of the extended house", and Hodínöhsö:ni:h...
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Passenger pigeon (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
names in indigenous American languages include ori'te in Mohawk, and putchee nashoba, or "lost dove", in Choctaw. The Seneca people called the pigeon jahgowa...
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Cuyahoga River (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
from the Seneca word for "jawbone". This explanation, however, is as uncertain as the Mohawk explanation. A close match in the Seneca language is Gayó'ha'geh...
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Fredonia, New York (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
Erie people (13th to 17th centuries), then the Iroquois (specifically, the Seneca). In 1791, Robert Morris purchased the Fredonia land from Massachusetts...
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place of strong-smelling mud or clay. (The Seneca language does not have a distinct R sound; the Seneca language equivalent, Canawaugus, was originally used...
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š for all instances. In the Seneca language, s̈ represents /ʃ/. It is also used in the digraph s̈h in the Shipibo language; s̈h represents /ʂ/, and sh...
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name is derived from the Chemung River, which means "big horn" in the Seneca language. The town is in the southeast corner of the county and is southeast...
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Kentucky (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
meaning "(on) the meadow" or "(on) the prairie" (cf. Mohawk kenhtà:ke, Seneca gëdá'geh (phonemic /kɛ̃taʔkɛh/), "at the field"). Another theory suggests...
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Handsome Lake (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was a half-brother to Cornplanter (Gayentwahgeh), a Seneca war chief. Handsome...
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Quinault language - The Language Conservancy has made a vocab builder app Saanich dialect Seneca language — As of January 2013, a Seneca language app was...
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Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during the 1st century AD. It is a retelling of the story of...
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from a Delaware Indian village whose name means "big horn" in the Seneca language. The county is part of the Southern Tier region of the state. Chemung...
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Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD,...
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Ohio River (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
The Ohio River (Seneca: Ohi:yo') is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern...
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Phyllis Bardeau (category Articles containing Seneca-language text)
a Seneca (Onödowáʼga:) author, and educator, and lexicographer. She was best known for her work on the Seneca language, including Seneca language dictionaries...
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Mononym (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
indigenous community. The name of the Dutch-Seneca diplomat Cornplanter is a translation of a Seneca-language mononym (Kaintwakon, roughly "corn-planter")...
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