Etymograph

English

Muscogee

Muscogee comes from Creek Maskoke.

  1. CreekmodernMaskokeas Mvskoke
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2024Muscogee

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. CreekmodernMaskokeas Mvskoke
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2024Muscogee

Earliest quotation: 2024, Marnie Hunter, How the Southern city of Macon went from ‘ghost town’ to ‘po: “Revis, who moved to Macon two-and-a half years ago…”

Today it means

noun A member of an indigenous people of the southeastern United States, also called Creek, many of whom were relocated to Oklahoma in the 1830s.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Creek Maskoke / Muscogee