Talk:scoke

RHU Etymology
"1785–95, Americanism; < a New England Algonquian language; compare Eastern Abenaki skókimin  pokeberry (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *aθko·-ka  snake + *-i-min  berry)"


 * If this word existed in isolation, that would be plausible. Skokimin (though I cannot find it in use) is indeed the expected Penobscot derivative of PA + . However, it seems more likely that scoke is a shortening of skokeberry. That word, in turn, may be from a word for "red berry", or from skokimin "snake berry" (since the berries are poisonous). - -sche (discuss) 01:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)