Talk:Sleetmute, Alaska
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Meaning of original name
editThe article on Nightmute says: "Negtemiut literally means ‘the people of the pressed-down place’.[8] The first element is negte- ‘to press down on’. The suffix is -miut ‘people’.[9]." It seems safe to assume that Sleitmiut/Sleetmute is from a similar construction, being in the same county. But what, then does "Sleit" mean in Yupik? Anyone have access to the sources from the Nightmute article? Might they shed some light on Sleetmute as well?
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo. Alaska Pacific University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-935094-09-1. "Nightmute (Negtemiut, lit. people of the pressed down place)"
- Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. "From Yupik (Eskimo) negtemiut, perhaps containing negte- 'to press down on'; the suffix -miut means 'people' (Jacobson 1984)."